Unable to seek out recruits for finishing up terror assaults in Punjab on the premise of ideology, gangsters appearing on behest of Pakistan’s intelligence company ISI have turned in direction of juveniles, drug addicts and petty criminals to hold out assaults on police stations.
The Indian Specific spoke to a number of senior cops on the latest spate of grenade and IED assaults on police stations. These officers, who declined to be named, stated that juveniles, drug addicts, petty criminals and poverty stricken youth have been being utilized by overseas primarily based gangsters to hold grenade assaults on police stations.
“Now we have sufficient intelligence on the modus operandi of those gangsters and the strikes they’re making however the whole lot can’t be put within the public area as but. Since these folks, appearing on the instructions of ISI and Sikh separatists primarily based in Pakistan, are unable to assault Punjabi youth on the premise of ideology they’re now alluring petty criminals to do their work “ stated a senior police official.
Police investigations have revealed that guarantees of getting them overseas on pretend passports or via ‘donkey route’ is one other allurement which is being supplied to the criminals to bask in grenade assaults.
“ARGES grenades procured by Pakistan Military and P86 grenades that are of Chinese language origin have been used on many events. Readymade IEDs are dropped by drones which fly throughout from Pakistan and these have additionally been utilized in Punjab just like the ‘tiffin bombs’ a number of years again. The Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) which have been utilized in assaults have been additionally discovered to have been Russian in origin and courting again to the battle in Afghanistan,” a senior officer revealed.
Whereas drones are a simple method to ship throughout these explosives, the standard routes via riverine tracts utilizing drug smugglers can be being utilized by the ISI.
Police officers underlined that there aren’t any ideological moorings behind the assaults on police stations being finished within the state. “It’s a simple method to create worry among the many normal public and the police personnel. There may be not a lot coaching required to hold out these acts and neither are those that perform these assaults sufficiently skilled in use of arms and ammunition “an workplace stated.
The police maintains that because the major exercise of those gangsters primarily based overseas is extortion via threats, they’re additionally utilizing these assaults to construct up their profile. “The gangsters primarily based overseas have been calling up journalists and asking them to interview them in order that they’ll venture themselves as a serious risk. In a single occasion once we didn’t identify a selected group which was behind an assault, it induced them nice irritation,” a senior official stated.
Stating that Pakistan-based gangster-turned-terrorist Harvinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda has shaped a brand new terror community with US-based Harpreet Singh alias Blissful Passia, police officers say Pakistan’s ISI desires to venture a brand new crop of separatists since these courting again to Eighties and early Nineties at the moment are lifeless or fading away.
“Nevertheless, Punjab isn’t a radicalised state. The diaspora in different nations is radicalised to a sure extent however there too it isn’t a majoritarian sentiment. We’re in talks with the overseas authorities businesses via the Authorities of India to verify the actions of the separatists and gangsters primarily based overseas in order that their nuisance worth is additional diminished,” an officer disclosed.
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