Punjab Police arrest two from Maharashtra for 'planting' bomb under Amritsar's SI's car

Chandigarh, August 20: In a major breakthrough, Punjab Police got big success in the case of planting bomb under Amritsar’s SI’s car.

Giving coordination to Punjab Police, ATS arrested the accused Rajender Kumar alias Bau Ramkumar Vedi and his partner Kushal from Shirdi in Maharashtra involved in the case.

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Based on the information provided by the Punjab Police, ATS Maharashtra has located the accused and arrested him in a joint operation. The accused has been handed over to the Punjab Police to investigate the role of the suspect in the case.

There was a conspiracy to blow up the bomb.

The incident happened in the Ranjit Avenue area of Amritsar and panic gripped Punjab's Amritsar city after a bomb was found under a car parked outside the house of sub-inspector with Punjab Police Dilbagh Singh.

As per information, two youths who came to wash the car in the morning saw a wire near one of the tires of the car and reported the matter to Sub-Inspector Dilbagh Singh. A CCTV footage of the incident has also surfaced on the basis of which the police have started an investigation.

As per the CCTV footage, two masked men were spotted outside the sub-inspector's house. The cop resides in Ranjit Avenue C-Block, the posh colony in Amritsar.

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Meanwhile, earlier on August 17 two persons have been arrested and has been identified as Harpal Singh, who is a policeman, and his accomplice Fatehveer Singh, from the Delhi airport.

-PTC News