The launcher used to fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the building housing the headquarters of Punjab police’s intelligence wing in Mohali’s Sector 77 was traced on Tuesday, coinciding with Gurpatwant Singh Pannu of the banned outfit Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) purportedly claiming responsibility for the attack through an unverified voice message.
Punjab police rounded up 18-20 suspects as the investigation into what might have been “a terrorist attack” gathered pace during the course of the day.
A day after the RPG attack on the headquarters of the state intelligence wing, Punjab police on Tuesday sounding a state of high alert in Mohali. The authenticity of the voice message attributed to Gurpatwant Singh Pannu of the banned outfit Sikhs For Justice claiming responsibility for the attack is being verified, the police said. “We are very close to cracking the case,” Mohali SSP Vivek Sheel Soni said.
