Excelsior Correspondent
CHANDIGARH, Apr 2: Security agencies investigating the blast outside the BJP office at Chandigarh yesterday are looking into the angle whether consignment of grenades had been supplied to Punjab from Jammu and Kashmir a couple of years back.
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The explosion occurred around 5 pm yesterday when a suspected crude explosive device was hurled near the office. However, no casualties were reported, but the incident triggered panic in the area.
Sources said the investigators are looking into the smuggling of one of the explosive consignments from the border district of Poonch supplied to Punjab nearly one and a half years back.
“A part of the consignment was seized in Punjab which included grenades similar to the one thrown at the BJP office in Chandigarh,’’ they added.
However, nothing much can be said at this stage when investigations are preliminary in nature, the sources said, adding that the things will be clear in next few days.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also joined investigations in the blast.
Meanwhile, Punjab BJP working president Ashwani Sharma today called the blast outside the party’s headquarters here an unfortunate incident, blaming forces, inimical to peace and brotherhood in the state, for this cowardly act.
Sharma also lashed out at Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over the law and order situation in Punjab and linked this blast incident to a series of grenade attacks outside police stations and other incidents.
Addressing media persons here, Sharma referred to an unverified video that surfaced on social media on Wednesday evening showing a man purportedly pulling the pin from a blue-coloured grenade and throwing it, while another person records the act.
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