An alleged member of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa who was to be used as a human bomb was arrested in New Delhi, Delhi Police claimed on Monday. Satnam Singh, Police said, had been prepared by the militant group to be a suicide bomber. The Crime Branch of the Delhi Policealso recovered some arms and ammunitions from his possession. "We are investigating who or what the possible targets could be," a police official said.
Babbar Khalsa was one of the main militant outfits operating in Punjab (North India) during the militancy era in the state in mid-1980s. In the past one month, Indian Police has made series of arrests of the militants allegedly belonging to the Babbar Khalsa outfit.
Earlier this month, Delhi Police had arrested Jagtar Singh Hawara, chief of Babbar Khalsa's India operations, along with two others in connection with the twin bomb blasts in two cinema hallsin Delhi on May 22. One person was killed and over 60 injured when blasts rocked the capital's Satyam and Liberty theaters during the screening of the controversial Hindi language film "Jo Bole Se Nihaal." |