One of the accused was injured in a gunshot during a scuffle with police on Monday when he allegedly attempted to escape and snatch a police officer’s service revolver. Punjab Police have claimed to have busted a gang allegedly operating at the behest of Pakistani handlers and involved in an attack on a police personnel in Amritsar district.
According to Amritsar Rural Police, the gang was allegedly assembled by a man lodged in Goindwal Sahib Central Jail, who had re-established contact with Pakistani ISI handlers through a mobile phone.
One of them allegedly opened fire with the intention to kill him. A bullet hit the ASI in his left arm, following which he was admitted to Civil Hospital in Ajnala. The handlers allegedly offered Rs 10 lakh to execute the attack on police personnel and spread terror in Punjab. The case pertains to an October 4 firing incident in which ASI Sukhchain Singh, posted at the Government Railway Police (GRP) station in Amritsar, was shot at while returning home on his motorcycle. Police said that around 7.15 pm, when the ASI was nearly 200 metres from his residence in Jagdev Khurd village, three motorcycle-borne youths approached him. An FIR was registered at Ajnala police station on October 5 under Sections 109, 61(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 25 of the Arms Act. Baljit Singh, son of Mewa Singh and a resident of Chakk Dogra village, had earlier been arrested in connection with a grenade attack on Bhindi Saidan police station in March 2026 and was lodged in Goindwal Sahib Central Jail, according to the police investigation.
The gang was allegedly assembled by a man lodged in Goindwal Sahib Central Jail, who had re-established contact with Pakistani ISI handlers through a mobile phone, according to Amritsar Rural Police. The attack was subsequently claimed on social media by Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan (TTH), police said.
