In a significant breakthrough, the Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) of Punjab Police has successfully thwarted a major terror conspiracy linked to Harwinder Rinda, a key Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) operative currently based in Pakistan and reportedly backed by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav wrote: “Acting swiftly on human intelligence, AGTF teams traced and recovered a large cache of terrorist hardware, including two AK-47 rifles with 16 live cartridges, two magazines, and two P-86 hand grenades from a forest area in #Gurdaspur, before it could reach Harwinder @ Rinda’s associates.”
According to him, preliminary investigation reveals that the recovered consignment was pushed into India by Pakistani agencies, and Harwinder alias Rinda, as part of a premeditated plan to carry out attacks at multiple locations in Punjab, aiming to disrupt public peace. An FIR under the Explosives Act and the Arms Act has been registered at PS Purana Shala, Gurdaspur.
The DGP said that further investigations are underway to identify and apprehend Rinda’s operatives involved in the recovered weapon consignment. “@PunjabPoliceInd reaffirms its unwavering commitment to dismantling organised crime networks and ensuring the safety and security of citizens,” DGP Yadav stated further in the post.