Amritpal supporter behind bomb blast in Amritsar: 12 days after arrest, accused Azadbir was angry with NSA

The Punjab Police has claimed to have caught 3 blasters around the Golden Temple in Amritsar within 5 days. A total of 5 people have been arrested. According to the police, these five carried out all the three blasts between May 5 and May 11. As soon as the third blast took place near the Golden Temple on the night of May 10, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) teams along with the police, which were on high alert, became active. First of all, the SGPC task force caught the main accused Azadbir Singh and handed him over to the police.

Within a few hours, on the tip of Azadbir, 4 other accused were also nabbed. Their names are Amrik Singh, Saheb Singh, Dharmendra and Harjeet. Of these, Amrik Singh was living with his wife in room number 225 of Guru Ramdas Sarai. The police is also questioning his wife.

Among the five accused, Azadbir and Amrik Singh played the main roles in the blasts. Both have been mischievous from the beginning. Azadbir has been dismissed from government job due to bribery while Amrik Singh is addicted to drugs. Both of them carried out these blasts after being angry with the imposition of NSA on Amritpal Singh, chief of Waris Punjab De Sangathan. Amritpal was arrested by the police on 23 April. After that Azadbir planned these blasts. The series of these blasts started on May 5 i.e. 12 days after the arrest of Amritpal.

Punjab Police DGP Gaurav Yadav, ADGP RN Daoke and Amritsar Police Commissioner ADGP Naunihal Singh during a press conference in Amritsar on Thursday.

5 facts revealed in police investigation

1. Azadbir is a supporter of Khalistan and considers Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala as his idol. There are many such posts in his social media accounts which are related to the era of terrorism.

2. Before the first blast, Azadbir took a photo with a bomb in his hand on the roof of the Saragarhi parking lot. Police got this photo from his mobile. After the blast, Azadbir had also put a post related to it on his Instagram account.

3. Azadbir and his associates deliberately chose the Golden Temple to explode the bomb. He wanted to create international identity and spread panic by exploding a small bomb in this area.

4. The accused used Potash, which is easily available in the market, for making country bombs. Potash is less lethal but its bang sound is more. Potash is used in crackers.

5. A case of sacrilege has been registered against the main accused Azadbir in Chheharta area of ​​Amritsar itself. June-2021 He had used wrong terminology here regarding Mata Sita and Shivling.

A post by Azadbir Singh on his Instagram account after the first blast in Heritage Street near the Golden Temple in Amritsar on the night of May 5.

5 accused, whose role in the blasts…

Blasts in return for FIR against NSA and Sikh youth
According to sources in the Punjab Police, Azadbir and his associates did all this to avenge the Punjab Police operation launched on March 18 against Amritpal Singh, chief of ‘Waris Punjab De’ in Punjab. DGP Gaurav Yadav said without naming any Sikh organization that the names of some gangs are coming in it, which are being verified. Azadbir is already motivated by radical ideology.

According to sources, Azadbir was upset with the imposition of National Security Act (NSA) on 10 youths of Punjab including Amritpal and the arrests of Sikh youths on a large scale. After being arrested by the police, the five accused said that the blast carried out on the night of May 10 was their last blast.

After this, he was about to demand removal of NSA imposed on Amritpal and others on social media. If the government did not do anything on their demand, then their group was simultaneously planning for a big blast.

Second blast if there is no movement after the first blast
The low-intensity blast outside the Saragarhi parking lot on Heritage Street at 12.25 am on May 5 only shattered some glass. After this blast, when there was no significant movement, Azadbir decided to do another blast. For this, he chose Heritage Street outside Saragarhi parking. The second blast, which took place at 6.15 am on May 7, did not cause any damage as Heritage Street was not crowded.

Azadbir did a detailed recce of the entire Heritage Street before the blasts. After this, he chose that side of Saragarhi parking for the blast which was not covered by CCTV coverage.

However, after two blasts in three days, Punjab Police DGP Gaurav Yadav himself reached the spot. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the National Security Guard (NSG) also camped in Amritsar due to these blasts happening near sensitive places like the Golden Temple.

When the strictness of the police increased in Heritage Street, a new location was found for the third blast.
After the first two blasts, police activity increased around the Saragarhi parking lot. Police camped on all the high rise buildings of Heritage Street. In such a situation, Azadbir, who was roaming freely, changed the location and burst the third bomb at 12.10 pm on the backside of Guru Ramdas Sarai.

This CCTV footage is from Wednesday night. These two suspects were seen in the verandah after the blast. A letter was also found with him.

Azadbir, who was a reader in Baba Bakala-Tarantaran tehsil
Azadbir, a resident of Wadala Kalan village in Baba Bakala Sahib area of ​​Amritsar, has been left by his wife because of his antics. Azadbir’s mother Baba Bakala Sahib grade four in tehsil
(Class IV) employees. Somehow he got Azadbir to get a government job. While being the Tehsildar’s reader, Azadbir was caught in bribery twice. He was dismissed after a departmental enquiry.

Azadbir has two more siblings. Both of them are settled abroad. According to the villagers, Azadbir used to take drugs earlier but some time back he had consumed the nectar.

Azadbir (with a bomb in his hand) also took a picture with the bombs made while standing on top of the Saragarhi parking lot. His partner Amrik Singh is addicted to drugs.

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Azadbir’s accomplice Amrik Singh is a resident of Adia village in Dorangala area of ​​Gurdaspur district. His father Lakhbir Singh, who lives in the village, told that he came to know about his son’s activities only when the police reached his house on Thursday.

Lakhbir Singh told that Amrik Singh used to take drugs. They threw her out of the family after she left home in February. Earlier, Amrib used to drive in Gujarat. He was also caught snatching with a boy from the village. He had married a girl from Bhorewal village only 11 months ago. The police have also taken a brother of Amrik into custody.

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