Big Breaking: Punjab cop, his accomplice held for 'planting' bomb under Amritsar's SI's car

Amritsar, August 17: The Punjab Police claim to have cracked the Amritsar bomb planting case with the arrest of two persons, identified as Harpal Singh, who is a policeman, and his accomplice Fatehveer Singh, from the Delhi airport. Harpal Singh belongs to the Reserve Battalions of the Punjab Police. Currently, he is posted as a gunman of Sandeep Gorsi, a prominent lawyer from Amritsar, and former chairman of the legal cell of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. Sources said Harpal Singh had been absent from duty for the past 2-3 days. As per information, the accused have admitted that they had more explosive material in possession. The duo had allegedly planted a bomb under the car of Sub Inspector Dilbagh Singh posted in the Amritsar Police. The accused were arrested from the Delhi airport. As per preliminary information, the accused in the bomb planting case were trying to flee the country. On a tip-off, a police team arrested them from the Delhi airport. The accused were brought to Amritsar in a flight. The case Panic gripped Punjab's Amritsar city on Tuesday after a bomb was found under a car parked outside the house of sub-inspector with Punjab Police Dilbagh Singh As per information, two youths who came to wash the car in the morning saw a wire near one of the tires of the car and reported the matter to Sub-Inspector Dilbagh Singh. A CCTV footage of the incident has also surfaced on the basis of which the police have started an investigation. [caption id="attachment_683798" align="aligncenter"] The accused in police custody.[/caption] As per the CCTV footage, two masked men were spotted outside the sub-inspector's house. The cop resides in Ranjit Avenue C-Block, the posh colony in Amritsar. -PTC News