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