Amritsar Police Commissioner GPS Bhullar said on Monday that he will not let people sitting across the border and Pakistani intelligence agency ISI be successful in their attempts to "disturb" peace in Punjab.
Bhullar’s statement came after the main accused in the Amritsar temple grenade attack was killed in an encounter with Punjab Police. He said the government and the administration have a zero-tolerance policy towards crime.
Speaking to media, the police commissioner also stated that till now, it is clear that foreign handlers orchestrated the attack. "We will not let those sitting across the border and ISI be successful in their attempts to disturb peace in Punjab... Things will be more clear when we nab and interrogate the second accused, but, technically, it is clear that this attack was operated by foreign handles. We have zero tolerance towards crime," said Bhullar.
Elaborating on the investigation process, the police official stated that they had registered a case soon after the incident and deployed special teams for investigation, following which the accused were identified, and one of them was killed in an encounter today.
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Bhullar said, "Following the attack on March 15, a case was registered. We had deployed our special police teams on it. Our teams cracked the case and identified the accused. When our police team intercepted the accused, the latter fired five rounds of bullets, out of which one bullet hit head constable Gurpreet Singh while the second one hit the turban of Inspector Amolak Singh.”
“In an act of self-defence, Inspector Vinod Kumar and Amolak Singh launched firing which injured the accused. Accused Gursidak who had lobbed (the grenade) died in hospital,” he said.
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