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Woman 'human bomb' held in Punjab

A Khalistani terrorist's plan to eliminate top leaders of the ruling Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance in Punjab was foiled with the arrest of a woman 'human bomb', the police said on Monday.

Gurudaspur's Senior Superintendent of Police Gaurav Yadav said Ravinder Kaur alias Tutu (28) of Jammu, was arrested at Rudrapur in Uttar Pradesh on March 30. The joint operation involved the Punjab and the UP police besides the intelligence sleuths.

Khalistani Zindabad Force member Ravinder Kaur was wanted in connection with two bus bomb blasts at Pathankot in April and June last year. Nine people were killed and several injured in the blasts.The Punjab police had been on her trail ever since.

Yadav said Ravinder, sister-in-law of KZF chief Ranjit Singh, is married to Nirmal Singh Nimma, who was acquitted in the General Vaidya assassination case.

The SSP said three consignments of explosives along with arms and ammunition and cyanide capsules, smuggled from Pakistan by KZF deputy chief Attar Singh, were kept in her house at Simble Chowk in Jammu. They were used in the Pathankot blasts.

While one of the three consignments of 20 kg each was used in preparing improvised explosive devices detonated in the blasts, the remaining two were delivered to some people, he said.

Yadav said Ravinder Kaur was in constant telephonic contact with other terrorists based in Canada, Britain, Belgium and Germany. The Babbar Khalsa international was also involved in the plan, he added.

He said Ravinder Kaur, a law graduate, took active part in all the meetings held at Jammu in which operational details of the Pathankot blasts were discussed.

Her husband Nimma belonged to Gehri Gadri village in Amritsar district. Sukha, who was convicted in the Vaidya case, also hailed from the same village.

UNI

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