Tarn Taran (Punjab): Now Al Qaeda’s offshoot Ghazwat-ul-Hind has claimed responsibility for the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack at a police station in Punjab’s Tarn Taran. The terror outfit said that they had fired a rocket from the Amritsar-Bathinda Highway.
However, these claims are being made to divert investigators line of investigation in the aforementioned case, feel experts.
Earlier on Saturday, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), a Khalistani militant organisation, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The RPG is being diffused by wearing a proper bomb-proof jacket and helmet. The bomb disposal squad has entered the office where an unexploded rocket-propelled grenade is lying.
Following the attack, NIA officers came to the Sarhali Kalan police station in Tarn Taran on Saturday evening, since the officials suspected a “terror link” in the attack.
After analysing the situation, Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav said that an FIR under UAPA has been registered. The Punjab
DGP added that there is a clear indication of a strategy of foreign elements to bleed India through thousand cuts.