Police investigating Chandigarh Sector-10 in Kothi. File photo.
Hand grenade bomb blasts held in Kothi No-575 of Chandigarh Sector-10 are seen connecting with Pakistan. This has been revealed in the charge sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Special Court. NIA says that used in attack
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The investigating agency has described terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda and USA based gangster Harpreet Singh alias Happy Passia as mastermind in this case, who carried out the incident. The next hearing will be held on 15 April.
Both of them had thrown a hand grenade bomb.
The NIA investigation also revealed that the hand grenade used to attack was made in Pakistan. These grenades are made only in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda has been living in Pakistan for a long time and through that this hand grenade was rushed to India.
Retired SP had a kothi
According to the charge sheet, at around 6 pm on September 10, two unidentified crooks came in auto and threw a hand grenade in Kothi No-575. Initial investigation revealed that the Kothi was of retired SP Jaskirat Singh Chahal of Punjab Police, who lived here till a few years ago. The objective of the attackers was to target Chahal, but he was not present in the Kothi at the time of the incident.
There is a bomb blast in the Kothi of Chandigarh Sector-10.
Supply came from Pakistan
NIA investigation revealed that terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda and gangster Happy Pasia were behind the blast. Investigation agencies arrested one of the accused in the case from Amritsar, while the other accused was arrested from Delhi the next day on the basis of mobile location.
The arrested accused were identified as Rohan and Vishal Christ of Punjab. He rented an auto for 500 rupees to go from Sector-43 ISBT to Sector-10 Kothi. Kuldeep, the driver of this auto, has also been arrested by the investigation teams.
Punjab Police arrested and took the accused.
Rinda and Pasia run target killing gang
Investigation has revealed that gangster Happy Pasia, along with terrorist Harvinder Singh Rinda sitting in Pakistan, works as a target killing. The NIA said that Rinda and Pasia had also targeted some youths to kill many people in Chandigarh and Punjab in 2023. The State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) arrested four youths from Mohali last year who revealed the target killing conspiracy during the remand.