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Police arrest ‘terrorists’, but media tears apart
claims
WSN Network
PHAGWARA: Punjab Police claimed it has
arrested three youths with RDX last Wednesday after a failed attempt
to target Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthaan in Nurmahal but media has
blown huge holes into the police story. The vernacular media had
reported the fact that police has picked up Gurinder Singh even
before police could claim that it arrested him two days later. The
reports also mentioned seizure of RDX haul and revelations made by
him during police interrogation.
Incidentally, Gurinder, along with his family, was booked around two
months back for waging war against the country and for sedition. The
police slapped the charges after Gurinder’s name had cropped up in
investigations of RDX seizure from Ghuman in Ludhiana. When
contacted for his comment, SSP Rakesh Aggarwal said that nothing
objectionable had been recovered from the members of
Gurinder’s family.
Now, question being raised in intelligence and media circles is what
made the police claim that Gurinder had failed to trigger the blast
on Wednesday and that he was arrested on his way back from Nurmahal.
According to their claims, he made twothree attempts to trigger the
blast.
Interestingly, police also claim to have recovered two maps from the
possession of the accused. While one is a road map of
Phagwara-Nurmahal stretch, the other is of the Ambala court complex
where the Dera Sacha Sauda chief is appearing for court hearings.
The police see no problem with the fact that a man determined to
carry out a terror act with so much planning will not need a map for
Phagwara to Murmahal stretch, particularly if Gurinder had already
tried to trigger the blast two-three times at Nurmahal then why was
he still moving around maps? Phagwara to Nurmahal stretch will be
known to every village bumpkin, but perhaps for the convenience of
Punjab Police cops, the terrorists carry maps in their back pockets.
26 December, 2007
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