Punjab Police cracks Jalalabad Motorcycle Blast case; Conspirator held with Tiffin Bomb

Within 3 days of the Motorcycle Blast in Jalalabad, the FazilkaPolice on Saturday cracked the case with the arrest of Parveen Kumar, whorevealed that the motorcycle carrying explosive material was to be placed insome crowded area in Jalalabad city. Notably, Balwinder Singh alias Bindu of villageJhugge Nihanga Wale died in a motorcycle blast in Jalalabad town at around 8 pmon September 15, 2021. He had a criminal background.

 
Following up on  an inputgiven by a farmer coupled with disclosures by Parveen, the police have alsorecovered a tiffin bomb kept concealed in fields in the area his native villageDharmupura, which is just 3 kms away from the Indo-Pak border.

 
Pertinently, this is the fourth such Tiffin bomb IED fabricatedin a ‘Made in Pakistan’ Children’s Tiffin Box— all bearing pictures of cartooncharacters, recovered from border state Punjab during the last 40 days.

 
Sharing details,Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ferozepur Range Jatinder Singh Aulakh saidthat after finding the role of Parveen in hatching the conspiracy to blow-offthe motorcycle in a crowded area, the Fazilka Police launched a probe into theavailable clues and arrested Parveen on Saturday.

 
He said that,during investigations, Parveen revealed that the blast which happened on themotorcycle, was being driven by Binder, and it was supposed to be parked insome crowded area in Jalalabad city.

 
Parveen alsorevealed that the conspiracy to commit this act of terror was hatched at thehouse of Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukha of village Chandi Wala in Ferozepuron  September 14, 2021. He said thatGurpreet Singh of village Lakhmir Ke Hitthar in Mamdot was also part of theconspiracy.

 
SSP Deepak Hilorisaid that on revelations of Parveen, the police have booked all the fouraccused persons and efforts are on to arrest Sukhwinder and Gurpreet. He saidthat all the four accused persons including Bindu are having a criminalbackground and are related to each other.

 
Already, FIR no.205 dated 16.9.2021 has been registered under sections 3 and 4 of theExplosives Act at Police Station City Jalalabad.

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Earlier, on August8, 2021, the Amritsar Rural police had recovered five hand grenades alongwith atiffin bomb from village Daleke in Lopoke. Similarly, Kapurthala Police hadalso recovered a similar consignment consisting of two live hand grenades, onelive tiffin bomb and other explosive material from Phagwara on August 20, 2021,while, the third tiffin was used to blow off an Oil Tanker in Ajnala on August8, 2021.