At a press conference here today, Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh revealed that the Punjab police had solved the three-day old Amritsar bomb blast case with the arrest of Khalistan Liberation Force operative Bikramjit Singh who was driving the motorcycle on which the duo came to hurl the grenade at the congregation of the Nirankaris at village Adliwal, near Rajasansi in Amritsar. He further said that Avtar Singh, the other alleged accused, who lobbed the grenade at the Nirankari assembly is still at large and would be arrested soon.

Flanked by Punjab DGP Suresh Arora and senior officials, the Punjab CM took a volley of questions from the media in Chandigarh, calling the incident as ‘a pure case of terror which had no communal angle.’ The Nirankaris were only easy and soft targets. He repeated ad nauseam that the Pakistan secret service ISI had smartly carried out this attack and this was borne by the fact that the grenade used had Pakistani markings and was manufactured by the Pakistan Ordinance Factory. He also said that the ISI is handling these touts from across the border and that Bikramjit Singh and Avtar Singh were first time criminals.

Significantly, the Chief Minister Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh clarified that these two detained did not have any links with the US-based Sikhs For Justice.

Punjab DGP Suresh Arora told the media that 26-year-old Bikramjit Singh alias Bikram of village Dhariwal under the Rajasansi police station was arrested today morning from village Loharka.

Nobody asked the Chief Minister as to how would it be possible to penetrate the near impossible barbed wire fencing between the two countries? And if the Punjab police and other security agencies are so sure about this theory of cross border linkage, then what further steps are being considered for further fencing and sealing of borders?

While the CM was reiterating that the ISI is cleverly handling their sleeper cells, nobody asked as to why would the Pak ISI sends grenades (HG84) into Punjab with Pakistani markings? Are they intelligent or are they stupid? They certainly cannot be so naive, can they be?

From the photos and sketches shown by the Chief Minister, it appears that some of these were earlier in circulation and these were deliberately released by the police only to a select section of the media.

Meanwhile, while this announcement was being made in Chandigarh, detention of Sikh activists of Dal Khalsa and other religious organisations continued in Amritsar and Gurdaspur, though most of those detained have been set free after questioning them about their political activities with no enquiry relating to the violence in Rajasansi.

Punjab has been gasping for truth since the last two days. Whether this is the whole truth or there is still more to it only time will tell. Or will this too go into the labyrinth of falsehood?

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Chandigarh, 21 November 2018, WSN News Bureau