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NEW DELHI: Two men suspected of moving for an ISI-backed "terror module" were injured successful an brushwood with Ludhiana Police connected Thursday aft they allegedly opened occurrence during a constabulary operation.
Officers had laid a trap based connected quality that a Pakistan-based handler had instructed the duo to speech grenades astatine circumstantial locations.Ludhiana Police Commissioner Swapan Sharma said the suspects fired astatine the constabulary erstwhile they were intercepted, prompting retaliatory firing. One antheral was deed by 3 bullets, and the different by one. Both were taken to a hospital, wherever 1 is reported to beryllium successful captious condition.
Sharma said the module was being tally done virtual numbers by an ISI handler based successful Pakistan. “They utilized to person calls from a virtual fig operating from Pakistan; the handler was from Pakistan's ISI...In the brushwood today, the Pakistan-based handler had tasked these 2 individuals to speech grenades astatine designated spots,” Sharma was quoted arsenic saying by ANI. Police had earlier arrested 3 others linked to the aforesaid module, Arsh from Bihar’s Bhojpur district, Ajay from Haryana’s Fatehabad, and Shamsher from Ludhiana, each assigned antithetic roles.
During the operation, constabulary recovered 2 Chinese-made grenades, 5 pistols suspected to person been smuggled crossed the border, and unrecorded ammunition. Officials said the 2 injured suspects had arrived astatine the determination to cod the grenades.
