Hawara was preparing human bomb

[sher-e-panjab]

Hawara was preparing human bomb

50 detonators, 3 human bomb pressure buttons recovered

Jupinderjit Singh

Tribune News Service

Khanna, June 12

The Babbar Khalsa International chief Jagtar Singh Hawara had allegedly been planning a major strike with the help of a human bomb as has been suggested by the recovery of 50 detonators and multiple switches belts and three Human bomb pressure buttons from Neelon Canal today by the Khanna police.

It was a human bomb that was used in the assassination of former Chief Minister Beant Singh, in which case Hawara is the prime accused.

SSP Khanna Naunihal Singh told mediapersons this evening that the police had recovered 20 electrical detonators, 30 mechanical detonators, four batteries, nine belts, eight bomb connections, an ABCD timer, eight bomb coils along with a timer bomb with maximum limit adjustment of 72 hours.

Those were hidden in a plastic bag in the Abohar Feeder Sirhind Canal near Neelon bridge on the Ludhiana-Chandigarh road. The police has also recovered 400 cartridges of a general purpose machine gun along with the detonators. The booty was retrieved with the help of divers.

The bag was recovered on the information of Inderjit Singh, a nephew of Hardeep Kaur, the alleged harbourer of Hawara. The police also announced the arrest of Charanjit Kaur, second sister of Hardeep Kaur, today for allegedly providing shelter to Hawara and conspiring with him to collect arms and ammunition. Kuldip Kaur, another sister of Hardeep Kaur, was arrested yesterday along with Inderjit Singh.

Mr Naunihal Singh said the detonators could have been used for anything and not necessarily as a human bomb. He said the arrested accused had revealed that the detonators and ammunition were given to them by Hawara. They had earmarked a special spot in the canal near the Neelon bridge towards Ropar. A fallen tree on the bank of the canal was marked as the sign of the spot.

The SSP said the accused had revealed that Hawara had handed the ammunition to them a few days ago only.

The police was investigating why the bag containing the ammunition went unnoticed by the Forest Department or the Irrigation Department. The police said the source of the ammunition would only be known to Hawara. He would be brought to Khanna in near future for questioning, he said.

The police was also trying to ascertain the motive of the alleged harbouers of Hawara in providing him shelter and helping him in amassing ammunition.

[source: TribuneIndia]