Overview

• Punjab’s Anti-Gangster Task Force foiled a terror plot orchestrated by Pakistan-based Harwinder Rinda with backing from the ISI.
• Teams recovered two AK-47 rifles with 16 live cartridges, two magazines and two P-86 hand grenades from a forest in Gurdaspur.
• Investigators say the arms consignment was smuggled in by Pakistani agencies as part of coordinated attack plans at multiple Punjab locations.
• An FIR under the Explosives Act and the Arms Act was filed at Purana Shala police station in Gurdaspur following the seizure.
• Authorities are conducting intelligence-led inquiries to trace and apprehend remaining operatives linked to Rinda’s network.