ISI behind supply of tiffin bombs, say police

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 17

Even as the Punjab Police are on a high alert after an oil tanker blast in Ajnala here turned out to be a terror attack, cops believe ISI-backed anti-national forces in Pakistan had supplied tiffin bombs in two empty boxes that were found in border village Bharopal four days ago.

Search operations on

Another drone movement was sighted in the Saharn border outpost area in Ramdass on Thursday night following which BSF jawans opened fire. Immediately, a search operation was launched which continued during the day, said police officials.

Two thermocol boxes wrapped with plastic tapes were dropped by drones near Bharopal village located near the Indo-Pak border four days ago. By the time the BSF and Punjab Police officials located the boxes, they were emptied by unidentified persons. “The packing was similar to the boxes recovered from Daleke border village from where the police had confiscated a tiffin bomb along with five hand grenades and weapons last month,” a police official privy to the investigations revealed.

Security and intelligence agencies were put on high alert after two empty thermocol boxes were dropped by drones. Two days ago, the police claimed to have busted the fourth terrorist module in past over a month with the arrest of four persons – Rubal Singh, Vickey Bhutti, Malkeet Singh and Gurpreet Singh. They were acting as sleeper cells and had carried out the explosion in an oil tanker in Ajnala using a tiffin bomb.

“Following their interrogation, we firmly believe that tiffin bombs were supplied by drones in the boxes which were emptied by miscreants before the arrival of BSF teams,” the official said. The police suspect those who retrieved the tiffin bombs were still hiding in the border belt and a manhunt was on to identify and nab them.

Meanwhile, another drone movement was sighted in the Saharn border outpost area in Ramdass on Thursday night following which BSF jawans opened fire. Immediately, a search operation was launched which continued during the day also, said police officials.