Grenade attack on BJP leader's home: NIA raids in Pb, Hry & UP
Chandigarh: The National Investigation Agency Thursday conducted a series of searches in
Punjab
, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh as part of its ongoing investigation into the recent Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)-linked grenade attack at the residence of BJP leader and former Punjab minister Manoranjan Kalia.
"NIA teams launched searches at 18 locations in the three states this morning and seized incriminating materials, including mobiles/digital devices and documents. The searches were conducted on premises of suspects linked with BKI operative Kulbir Sidhu, US-based gangster Manish aka Kaka Rana, and their nodes based in India and other countries," the NIA said.
According to NIA, Kulbir Sidhu, originally from Yamunanagar in Haryana, is in Germany and is an aide of designated terrorist and BKI chief, Pakistan-based Wadhawa Singh Babbar.
Sidhu is also an accused in the April 2024 murder of VHP leader Vikas Prabhakar in Nangal, Punjab, being probed by NIA.
"The terror attack on the Punjab ex-minister's house in Jalandhar was committed on the night of April 7 by accused Saidul Ameen, who was arrested by the state police on April 12. This was one of the series of grenade attacks carried out by BKI operatives in Punjab, on the directions of foreign-based handlers of the proscribed terrorist organisation," the NIA said.
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