CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Police on Monday foiled a major terror attack attempt ahead of Independence Day after recovering a double-decker tiffin box bomb filled with improvised explosive (IED) along the Indo-Pak border in Amritsar. Police said 2-3 kg IED was packed into the tiffin and could have been delivered on the Indian side through a drone from Pakistan.
A high alert has been sounded in Punjab following the recovery. Besides the tiffin, the police also recovered five hand grenades, 100 rounds of 9 mm pistol ammunition, a switch and a remote control device from Daleke village in Amritsar.
Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta said that following the inputs on drone activity in the area, a massive combing operation was launched during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday. During the operation, the police team recovered a bag with the explosives and ammunition packed neatly in soft foam pouches. He said preliminary investigations indicated that the bag was dropped through a drone that crossed the border undetected.
He said that the police teams secured the bag and called a team of National Security Guards (NSG). “The RDX was installed in the tiffin box in a sophisticated manner such that it had three different mechanisms including switch, magnetic and spring controls for operational flexibility with two U-shaped magnets,” said Gupta, adding that further investigations were on.