Four people, including a minor, were arrested in Lucknow for planning an attack on police or Army personnel (In pic from left to right: Krish, Rajat Kumar, Gagandeep Singh)
They left Amritsar on October 27, travelled through Delhi and reached Lucknow around midnight on October 29. An FIR has been registered at the ATS police station in Lucknow under Sections 152 and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Sections 3/25 of the Arms Act and Sections 18 and 38 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Additional DG, Law and Order, Amitabh Yash said intelligence inputs suggested that some youths from Punjab associated with the banned network were planning an attack on a police or military establishment in India. “During interrogation, the accused told investigators that they had been assigned the task of killing an Army or police personnel and recording the attack on video to send it to their Pakistani handler. The ATS is also planning to seek their police custody remand to investigate the financial trail, identify other associates and establish the extent of the alleged conspiracy,” said the ADG.
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested four people, including a minor, allegedly linked to the banned Shahzad Bhatti Network (SBN) for plotting to target a police or Army personnel in Lucknow on the instructions of a Pakistan-based handler identified as Rana Bhai. “The accused will be produced before a court for further legal proceedings.
Further investigation allegedly revealed that Gagandeep Singh and his associates were in contact with Rana Bhai, an active member of the network, who had instructed them to carry out an attack in Lucknow.