CHANDIGARH - Hardcore Khalistani militant Rattandeep Singh has been arrested from the outskirts of Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh, where he was likely to target a top Hindu leader, Punjab Police said Sept 18. In an operation conducted by a 19-member team of Punjab Police's State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) with a central agency Sept 17, Rattandeep Singh, a top operative of the Bhindranwale Tiger Force of...
Khalistan (BTFK), was nabbed from Gorakhpur, a police spokesman said. He carried a reward of Rs.10 lakh on his head. Preliminary interrogation of the terrorist revealed that he had come to India to target a prominent Hindu leader who enjoys security from the Punjab Police. Police found him carrying a Pakistani passport and identity card in the name of Hussain Sheikh Zahid and some Pakistani and Indian currency. Rattandeep, who was based in Pakistan since 1993, had been coming to India to carry out terrorist strikes. "He had recently re-entered the country to carry out a major strike," the spokesman said.
The militant was earlier a top operative of the Sikh separatist group Khalistan Commando Force (KCF). Later he joined terrorist outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and became its operational head. In recent years, the Punjab Police have foiled attempts by some groups linked to terror outfits to revive terrorism in the state, which had witnessed a prolonged period of terrorism from 1981 to 1992. "Rattandeep Singh was the kingpin of a group of militants who had planted explosives in a vehicle in Amritsar near Circuit House in May 2010 and for that purpose, he had smuggled in a consignment of weapons and explosives from across the border (Pakistan)," the spokesman said. With the arrest of Rattandeep Singh, all the operatives of the terrorist gang involved in the plan have been arrested. Rattandeep Singh is wanted in several militant offences in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.
The militant was earlier a top operative of the Sikh separatist group Khalistan Commando Force (KCF). Later he joined terrorist outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and became its operational head. In recent years, the Punjab Police have foiled attempts by some groups linked to terror outfits to revive terrorism in the state, which had witnessed a prolonged period of terrorism from 1981 to 1992. "Rattandeep Singh was the kingpin of a group of militants who had planted explosives in a vehicle in Amritsar near Circuit House in May 2010 and for that purpose, he had smuggled in a consignment of weapons and explosives from across the border (Pakistan)," the spokesman said. With the arrest of Rattandeep Singh, all the operatives of the terrorist gang involved in the plan have been arrested. Rattandeep Singh is wanted in several militant offences in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.
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