In a joint operation, sleuths of Punjab Police along with Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of UP arrested two operatives of banned terror outfit Babbar Khalsa from lucknow and adjoining district of Unnao. While the first arrest was made late on Wednesday night from lucknow, the second was made from Unnao on Thursday morning.
ATS IG Aseem Arun confirmed on Thursday evening that a team raided a suspected hideout of Babbar Khalsa militant Balwant Singh in Aishbagh area and arrested him late Wednesday night. He said that raids were conducted along with sleuths of Punjab Police.
later acting on inputs provided by Balwant Singh during night-long quizzing, the joint team managed to lay its hands on Jaswant Singh alias Kala from Sohramau area of Unnao on Thursday morning. Kala had been staying at Bhalla Farms for the past couple of years. The Punjab Police is slated to take the accused to Punjab on transit remand after producing them in a lucknow court.
Balwant Singh, a native of Nawa Sahar in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar in Punjab, is an active member of Babbar Khalsa and has been fighting for a separate State of Khalistan.
The top cop said that the whereabouts of Balwant Singh were known after Punjab Police arrested two other members of the outfit recently. Jaswant Singh Kala hails from Punjab’s Muktsar district and was wanted in several cases in Rajasthan, Punjab and Delhi. He was jailed on sedition charges in Delhi in 2008.