Lagatar24 Desk
Ludhiana, Dec.28: A top member of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) was arrested in Germany for reportedly being the main conspirator in the December 23 blast in the Ludhiana district court complex, which killed one person and injured five others, as India provided evidence with counter-terrorism agents in Berlin. The accused has been identified as Jaswinder Singh Multan.
Multan was plotting to import more explosives into India across the international border, as well as set out similar explosions in other regions of the country.
“We revealed all the facts that we acquired from the blast site as well as how Multan’s scheme was hatched,” one of the sources added.
Multan is also suspected of promoting weapons in the Khemkaran area of Punjab’s Tarn Taran district in October of this year.
The Punjab Police and the Border Security Force (BSF) had previously discovered a large cache of firearms along the India-Pakistan border in the Khemkaran area on October 20. They found 22 firearms, 44 magazines, 100 rounds of ammo, as well as a kilogramme of heroin.
Multan was in contact with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), according to the source.
On December 23 at around 12.22 p.m., an explosion occurred in a restroom on the second floor of the District and Sessions court complex in Ludhiana.
According to the counter-terrorism organisations investigating the event, former Punjab Police Head Constable Gagandeep Singh set the bomb in the court complex and perished when it detonated, killing him instantly.
Gagandeep Singh, a former police chief constable who was fired after being found to have ties to a drug dealer. In 2019, he was charged under the NDPS Act and sentenced to two years in prison.
The Pakistani ISI was also revealed to be behind the blast and in contact with Gagandeep Singh, according to the investigation agencies.
Police discovered the role of SFJ members Harvinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh Multan, who were based in Germany, during the investigation. They were in contact with Avtar Singh Pannu, the president of the SFJ, and Harmeet Singh.
