A 19-year-old man was arrested from Southeast Delhi on Saturday afternoon in reference to the April 8 grenade assault on the home of Punjab BJP chief Manoranjan Kalia in Jalandhar in a joint operation between the Delhi Police Particular Cell and the Punjab Police, sources within the police mentioned.
The arrested man, Saidul Ameen – a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha – had reached Delhi on Friday and was hiding at a resort in Jasola, they added.
“Ameen was in common contact with fugitive Jeeshan Akhtar, additionally the mastermind behind the homicide of Maharashtra chief Baba Siddique. Akhtar is suspected to be working both from Azerbaijan or Europe,” a supply within the police mentioned.
Addressing mediapersons after the assault, Punjab Particular DGP (Legislation and Order) Arpit Shukla had mentioned that gangster Zeeshan Akhtar – a recognized affiliate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, and Pakistani gangster Shehzad Bhatti – had been behind the assault.
Following a tip-off obtained by a Delhi Police Particular Cell staff from Northern Vary, a staff led by Inspectors Ravi Tushir and Puran Pant – below the supervision of DCP Amit Kaushik and ACP Rahul Singh – raided the resort together with Punjab Police personnel and arrested Ameen from his room on Saturday.
An officer mentioned that Ameen was instructed to destroy his cellphone and shave his head after the assault at Kalia’s home. “He was additionally instructed to go underground for just a few days and await for directions for one more job… Ameen was contacted by way of Instagram and employed to do throw grenade exterior Kalia’s residence for Rs 50,000. He obtained the cash in installments from totally different accounts by way of UPI transactions.”
In response to the officer, Ameen was instructed to gather the grenade from a locality in Amritsar. “He employed an e-rickshaw for Rs 1,500, threw the grenade exterior Kalia’s residence and fled,” he mentioned. One other supply within the police mentioned Ameen watched YouTube movies to discover ways to throw grenades.
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The Punjab Police had on April 8 claimed to have solved the case inside 12 hours with the arrest of two individuals. That they had additionally recovered the e-rickshaw used within the assault. That they had suspected that Pakistan’s intelligence company ISI, together with Babbar Khalsa Worldwide, was behind the assault and wished to create communal disturbance within the state. Kalia was residence on the time of the explosion, however was not harmed.
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