Amritsar: The Amritsar Rural Police has foiled a major terror plot by arresting a man allegedly linked to Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, and recovering an improvised explosive device (IED) intended for a targeted attack in Punjab.
The accused, identified as Harman Singh, a resident of a village under the Ajnala police station jurisdiction near the India-Pakistan border, was apprehended before he could execute the plan. According to officials, the IED was meant to target a police building, but timely intervention by security forces prevented a potential disaster.
Bomb disposal teams successfully defused the device, which contained over half a kilogram of RDX, along with iron pellets, a tiffin box, a detonator, a remote control, and connecting wires—indicating a high-intensity explosion capability.
During interrogation, the accused reportedly confessed that he had retrieved the IED from agricultural fields in the Ramdas area, where it had been dropped by Pakistani smugglers using a drone. He was tasked with delivering the explosive to a designated location.
Investigators also recovered a mobile phone from his possession containing multiple contacts linked to Pakistan. Preliminary findings suggest that the accused made more than two dozen calls to these numbers in the past week, raising suspicions of direct links with the ISI.
Security agencies are now expanding the probe to identify other members of the network and dismantle the larger module behind the plot. Authorities have intensified surveillance along the border region to prevent similar attempts.
The incident underscores ongoing cross-border threats and the continued use of drones for smuggling explosives and coordinating attacks in Punjab.
