New Delhi/Chandigarh, April 12 (IANS) A group of Punjab Police has busted a terrorist recruitment, funding, and aiding module with the arrest of Germany-based operative Prabhpreet Singh Sidhu from the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport in Delhi, Director Common of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav stated right here on Friday.
An enter was obtained in 2020 at State Particular Operation Cell (SSOC) Amritsar that Khalistan Zindabad Power (KZF) terrorist Jagdish Singh Bhura was planning to hit some high-profile targets in Punjab and to perform this job, he had offered weapons and monetary help to his India-based associates.
Punjab Police took swift motion and busted the module by arresting 4 operatives of this organisation and recovering arms and ammunition from their possession. On this regard, a case dated December 19, 2020, was registered underneath Sections 13, 17, 18, 18-B and 20 of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Part 25 of the Arms Act in Amritsar.
DGP Yadav stated in the course of the investigation, the arrested accused individuals had disclosed that they had been engaged on the instructions of wished terrorist Jagdish Singh Bhura and his shut aide, Prabhpreet Singh.
The arrested individuals had additionally revealed that they had been planning to hit high-profile targets.
He stated that since Prabhpreet was residing in Germany, Punjab Police, after naming him on this case, issued a Lookout Round towards him by way of the Bureau of Immigration, Delhi.
“On Wednesday, immigration authorities on the IGI Airport Delhi knowledgeable us concerning the detention of Prabhpreet Singh. Subsequently, a group of SSOC Amritsar rushed to Delhi and arrested the accused,” stated the DGP.
Sharing extra particulars, AIG SSOC Amritsar Sukhminder Singh Mann stated preliminary investigations have revealed that accused Prabhpreet went to Poland on a sound visa in 2017, and crossed to Germany by street in 2020.
To achieve everlasting residence in Germany, he utilized for political asylum, he added.
Whereas residing in Germany, the accused got here in contact with Belgium-based KZF terrorist Jagdish Singh Bhura and bought concerned in anti-national actions, he stated, including the accused organized funding and weapons to his Indian associates to hold out focused killings and different disruptive actions.
He stated additional investigations are being performed to unearth the entire community of Prabhpreet and the module he’s working for.
In the meantime, police groups have procured a remand of accused Prabhpreet until April 15 after presenting him in a courtroom.
–IANS
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