Overview

• Police say 19-year-old Gurpreet Singh was injured in a morning blast while assembling high-intensity explosives, with a second explosion later injuring his father, Jagtar Singh.
• Ballistics confirmed a powerful explosive and investigators suspect picric acid, with phone visuals indicating possible procurement from a Jodhpur-based chemical supplier.
• SSP Amneet Kondal said the phone contained extremist content, including following Pakistan-based Azhar Masood, though investigators report no evidence yet of direct contact with extremists.
• IB personnel are assisting the local probe, the NIA has not formally joined, the house remains sealed, and bomb-disposal teams used robots and remote vehicles to sanitize the site.
• Surgeons at AIIMS Bathinda amputated Gurpreet’s badly damaged hand, police seized phones for forensic analysis, and a case was registered under the Explosives Act and BNS sections 287 and 326(f).