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“The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has apprehended a person wished by the Punjab police for his alleged involvement in smuggling arms for a gang working on the behest of Pakistan-based terrorist networks to hold out grenade assaults within the nation,” an official stated.
The ATS, in a launch on Friday (November 14, 2025), stated that Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi Billa was nabbed from Halol city in Panchmahal district primarily based on a selected enter shared by the Punjab police.
“He will likely be handed over to the Punjab police. Lately, police in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district registered a case towards sure people for smuggling and detonating grenades and serving to terrorist networks working throughout the border,” the discharge stated.
“Preliminary probe revealed the primary accused of the case, Manu Agwan and Maninder Billa, who’re at the moment in Malaysia, have been recruiting operatives in Punjab on the behest of handlers of Pakistan’s ISI to hold out grenade assaults in densely populated areas of Punjab and different States to unfold terror,” the discharge added.
In the course of the interrogation of two different accused arrested lately, the Punjab police discovered about Singh’s function in smuggling two grenades and two pistols as a part of the conspiracy to hold out terror assaults, the discharge stated.
“Primarily based on the knowledge shared by the Punjab police, the ATS staff reached Halol and discovered that Singh had began working as a laborer in a manufacturing facility. He was apprehended from a lodge and introduced right here for additional questioning. Singh admitted to his function within the grenade assault conspiracy,” the discharge stated.
Printed – November 15, 2025 10:25 am IST