Ludhiana court blast: Boxer, Ranjit unaware who gave explosives to Gagandeep: Probe

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, January 7

The interrogation of two jail inmates Sukhwinder Singh Sony, alias Boxer, and Ranjit Singh in connection with the Ludhiana court bomb blast case is yet to give any vital clue to the police.

Even role of these two inmates has also reportedly not come to light in the bomb blast case yet, which has further deepened the mystery.

Both inmates, with whom deceased Gagandeep had spent around two years in jail after he was caught in a drug case in November 2019, had developed good relationship with him.

Notably, on December 23, Gagandeep, a dismissed Punjab Police head constable, had died when explosives he was carrying went off accidentally in the public toilet of the Ludhiana courts.

After the blast, the police had brought Boxer and Ranjit, who are facing drug cases, on production warrant from Central Jail, Ludhiana. The preliminary probe of the police had initially found that both these inmates had facilitated talk of Gagandeep with pro-Khalistan elements sitting abroad and the entire conspiracy of bomb could also have been hatched from Central Jail.

The police had also recovered some cell phones from jail inmates, which have calls records of their conversation with Gagandeep and with some foreign-based persons, but that would not suffice to establish their role behind bomb blast.

Now, the focus of the police is on identifying persons, who handed over explosives to Gagandeep. The interrogation of Ranjit and Boxer has so far not established their role in bomb blast conspiracy.

“We have brought two more jail inmates on production warrant, who were close to Gagandeep and are also in good terms with Ranjit and Boxer. Let the investigation reach some conclusions. Only then the police could clear whether these jail inmates have any role in bomb blast or not,” said a police official.

“If the police is able to identify persons, who handed explosives to Gagandeep, then the entire conspiracy behind the blast could unfold,” he added.

Notably, all senior police officials have gone incommunicado as no one is sharing any information about the ongoing probe.