JALANDHAR; Jalandhar Police on Saturday unraveled the mystery of involvement of Punjab Armed Police (PAP) personnel in the powerful bomb blast which killed former Batala police chief Gobind Ram and three other cops in the PAP complex here on January 10 last year on the eve of the then Prime Minister V.P. Singh’s visit to Ludhiana.

Announcing this a press conference here, the district police chief, Suresh Arora and the

 Superintendent of police (detective) said two head constables, who helped hardcore Khalistan Liberation Force (Budhsinghwata) Lt. General Manjit Singh alias “Doctor plant the RDX explosive in the office of Gobind Ram had been arrested.

The person at whose office the bomb had been assembled had also been arrested. All the three accused have since been remanded to police custody, the officers added.

Another constable involved in the crime was absconding. Both “Manjit Singh and his accomplice, Rajinder Singh Shoda, also a “KLF activist”, who triggered the blast with are mote control device were also at large, they added.

Both the arrested cops were from 80 battalion of PAP whose commandant Inderjit Singh Sandhu and two women clerks in his office were also wounded by the flying projectiles, which pierced into the commandant’s office complex situated opposite the office of Gobind Ram, who was then commandant of 75 battalion of PAP. Sandhu was then on deputation with the Punjab Police from BSF.

One of the accused head constable was working as a driver whiles the other who was telephone operator in the 80 PAP battalion, had gone for training to Indore.

One constable, who worked as security guard of the city DSP, and another, in charge of empty police vehicles, were cleared after interrogation in this case.

The militants after having planted the bomb left the PAP complex and waited for a signal from the accused cops stationed inside the complex. The militants, who had parked their scooter alongside the outer boundary wall of the sprawling complex running. Parallel to the G.T Road, detonated it with a remote control service.

Article extracted from this publication >> November 29, 1991