Ghaziabad, March 6: Babbar Khalsa International’s (BKI) suspected terrorist Lajar Masih, arrested by the team of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (UP STF) and the Punjab Police, has links to Ghaziabad. Actually, the suspected terrorist had got a fake Aadhaar card made from Ghaziabad. After this revelation, panic erupted among police and district administration officials, while the intelligence and security agencies have started searching those people with whose help the fake Aadhaar card was made.
However, this is not the first case in Ghaziabad. Earlier also, Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s killers and kidnappers of British citizens had taken shelter here.
Babbar Khalsa International (BKI)’s suspected terrorist Lajar Masih has been arrested from Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday early morning.
According to officiating UP DGP Prashant Kumar, the Aadhar card recovered from the suspected terrorist was made from Ghaziabad. After this revelation, the police and intelligence agencies are on high alert. The suspected terrorist stayed in Ghaziabad, adjacent to the country’s capital, but no one got any information about it, everyone is shocked about this. However, this is not the first case. Ghaziabad has been a shelter for terrorists in the past as well. The then Chief Minister of Punjab Beant Singh was assassinated in Chandigarh in August 1995. The assassins fled from there and were hiding in Nandgram of the metropolis.
DGP told that similarly, in the year 1994, terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammed stayed in Mussoorie. They kidnapped three citizens of British origin and took them to Saharanpur. The then Inspector of Sahibabad police station Dhruv Lal Yadav was martyred in an encounter with the terrorists while freeing the foreign citizens. During this time, the police arrested Pakistani terrorists Azhar Masood and Shekhar Umar Saeed. To release these terrorists, their comrades hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Kathmandu in 1999.
DGP Kumar revealed that this series is not stopping here. In 1987, the notorious terrorist Kashmira Singh carried out a series of blasts in Sahibabad Apsara Border and Shahdara. He was injured in an explosion while carrying a bicycle bomb in Sahibabad itself. The injured Kashmira Singh had told the police that he had carried out this blast on the instructions of London-based Khalistan Liberation Front. After this, 15 people were killed in a bus blast between Duhai and Muradnagar on 27 April 1996. Forty people were injured. This bus belonged to Roorkee depot and was going from Delhi to Roorkee. 19 people lost their lives in the serial bomb blasts carried out by terrorists in several bogies of Frontier Mail. In this, the name of Abdul Karim alias Tunda, a resident of Pilkhuwa, who was once a part of Ghaziabad, came to light. However, after a long hearing, Abdul Karim was acquitted by the court.
DGP said that similarly, the terrorists of the Red Fort bomb blast case were also linked to Ghaziabad. The driving license found from a captured Pakistani terrorist was made at the address of Kaila Bhatta in Ghaziabad. Apart from these incidents, there have been many other incidents in which the terrorists have been linked to Ghaziabad. Terrorist Munir, who was the main accused in the murder case of NIA Deputy SP Tanzil Ahmed and his wife in Bijnor in 2016, had come to Ghaziabad and stayed there. Later, the police arrested him from a colony near ABES College.
On the other hand, Ghaziabad DCP City Rajesh Kumar said that after the information that the Aadhaar card of the suspected Babbar Khalsa terrorist was made from the metropolis,
the police and other intelligence agencies have become active. Also, the suspects are being kept under strict surveillance.
