Amritsar August 3:
Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Harminder Singh, the main accused in the Ludhiana Shingar bomb blast case who was arrested by the Khanna police recently along with three terror suspects Jaswinder Singh, Manjinder Singh and Gurjant Singh, had not only visited Pakistan twice in 2005 and 2006 as part of the jatha of the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC), headed by Parmjit Singh Sarna, but also received training in handling of explosives and arms during his stay in Pakistan for about two years from January 2008.
Harminder Singh had fled to Pakistan via Nepal using fake passport. He lived there and received arms training at Lahore and Nankana Sahib from aides of top Pakistan-based terrorists Wadhawa Singh Babbar and Jagtar Singh. Prior to his sneaking into Pakistan, Harminder Singh, highly placed police sources revealed, had gone to Pakistan twice as part of the DSGMC jatha in 2005 and 2006. The Punjab Police has reportedly claimed that the three accomplices of Harminder Singh had not only attended the marriage of son of the DSGMC chief in New Delhi, but were also promised SAD (Delhi) tickets for the coming SGPC elections.
The police has also claimed that the three suspects, who were injured in the December 2009 Ludhiana clash between supporters of Baba Ashutosh and some Sikh organisations, were also given an aid of Rs 50,000 each by Sarna in the aftermath of the clash. Sarna, however, has already denied having any links with the three suspects asserting he did not know any suspects or Jarnail Singh, the head of the Shiromani Tat Khalsa organisation.