NEW DELHI, Jan 8:
Five people including a Pakistani national were charge sheeted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a case related to a bomb explosion in a Ludhiana court in December 2021 that left a suspected terrorist dead and six civilians injured, an official said today.
The agency filed the charge sheet against the accused in a special NIA court, Mohali in Punjab on Saturday, a spokesperson for the federal agency said.
The case was initially registered on December 23 at Police Station Division -5, Ludhiana Commissionerate, Punjab and re-registered by the NIA on January 13, 2022.
During Investigation, the spokesperson said it has been revealed that Pakistan-based International Sikh Youth Federation and Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) terrorist handler Lakhbir Singh Rode had planned to execute IED blasts at various locations in Punjab.
“In order to execute the plan, he, in association with Pakistan-based smugglers, recruited India-based operatives to smuggle IEDs and to carry out blasts to cause maximum casualties and to strike terror among the general public,” the official said. (PTI)
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