Chandigarh: The Punjab Police has claimed to have uncovered a major terror conspiracy in the state.
Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta informed in a press conference in Chandigarh that a tiffin box bomb and 5 grenades have been recovered near the Indian border in Dalke village of Amritsar.
Police said the tiffin box bomb was equipped with an IED. DGP Dinkar Gupta said that a suspicious object was thrown into India by a drone from across the border in Amritsar area. The sarpanch of the local village informed the police after which a search operation was launched.
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Dinkar Gupta said that the big conspiracy has been foiled. IED has been found in this tiffin box brought from the drone. About 100 cartridges have also been recovered.
Explosives were recovered in Amritsar village on Sunday evening.
The village sarpanch had informed the police that a drone had entered India from the Pakistan border. It dropped a suspicious object and went back.
DGP Dinkar Gupta said that the team of NSG (National Security Guard) was called to the spot. He said that the recovered material could contain two to three kg of RDX.
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