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January 18-19
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A bomb, suspected to be an Improvised
Explosive Device (IED), was discovered kept along the Bhiwanigarh-Nabha
highway outside the Indian Oil Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) bottling
plant in Nabha in Patiala District late in the evening of January
18, Police said on January 19.
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February 20
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Two militants of KCF were arrested
with explosives at a check-post near Rajgarh villagein Patiala
District. Jasvir Singh alias Jassa ofMaanki village in Sangrur
District and Harjant Singh alias DC from Gurdaspur District, who
were involved in more than 12 cases since 1993, were arrested
when they were on their way to plant bombs in Ambala, Inspector
General (IG) of Patiala range, P.S Gill, said on February 21.
They had reportedly planted bombs outside an LPG refilling plant
near Nabha town in January 2010 and on a road leading to Indian
Air Force station at Zirakpur, near Chandigarh. Nearly eight kilograms
of explosives, 40 gelatin sticks, two pistols and some ammunition
were seized from them, the IG said. The IG claimed that the duo
had met KCF’s Bakhshish Singh alias Baba who is absconding since
the Karnal bomb attack attempt on the Dera Sacha Sauda (a group
regarded as 'heretic' by orthodox Sikhs) chief in a high security
jail during the days of militancy in Punjab. According to Gill,
another KCF terrorist Harminder Singh, now in Malaysia, provided
arms, ammunition, explosives and money to DC, Jassa and Baba through
the hawala (informal money transfer system) route and the
trio had planted bombs with the help of another person, Pargat
Singh, near the LPG plant in Nabha and the airbase.
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