Police identify Ludhiana bomb suspect as former cop

Nikhil Bhardwaj
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, December 24

Investigators have identified the person behind Thursday’s bomb blast in Ludhiana’s court complex as a former cop, police said on Friday.

Gagandeep Singh, who died in the blast on Thursday, was a former constable posted at Sadar police station in Khanna who was arrested with two others in August 2019 on drug charges. Police sources said he was dismissed from service after he was caught with 785 grams of heroin.

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Police sources privy to the development said police had found a phone at the blast site that helped them identify the suspect. A tattoo of a 'khanda'(religious symbol) affirmed his identity.  

Ludhiana Police are working with Khanna Police on the case. It’s unknown at this point what his motives and targets were, sources said.

Incidentally, Singh's case was to be heard in a courtroom on the first floor earlier Friday.

Six people were wounded in the blast that killed the suspect.