Punjab Police bust Khalistan Zindabad Force terror module, two arrested

Punjab Police have busted a terror module of Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) being operated from Canada and Germany.

 Giving this information DGP Dinkar Gupta on Sunday said, “Police had arrested Makhan Singh Gill alias Amli and Davinder Singh alias Happy, both residents of village Noorpur Jattan, Hoshiarpur district and seized 2 sophisticated arms and ammunition, including one MP5 sub-machine gun (with two magazines and 30 live rounds) and one 9mm pistol (with two magazines and 30 live rounds), besides one white colour Etios car, 4 mobile phones and an internet dongle.”

 Gupta said that during the preliminary investigations, Makhan alias Amli disclosed that they were in touch with Canada-based Harpreet Singh who had instigated them to raise a terror module in Punjab to carry out killings.

 According to Makhan, who has earlier been a close associate of BKI chief Wadhawa Singh, Canada based Harpreet, a KZF operative, is a frequent visitor to Pakistan and he’s a close aide of Pak based KZF chief Ranjeet Singh @ Neeta, added DGP. 

He said the accused further disclosed that the above arms and ammunition had been arranged for them by Ranjeet Neeta through his associates. 

A couple of other foreign-based terrorist handlers from Germany and the USA had also figured in the module, who was involved in transferring funds from abroad to Makhan through different money transfer services, Gupta added. He further disclosed that a case under sections 120-B, 121, 152 IPC, 25/54/59 Arms Act, r/w sections 17, 18, 18-B, 20 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, had been registered at PS Mahalpur, Hoshiarpur district.