LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Police Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) has obtained seven days’ police custody remand (PCR) of three Khalistani suspects, arrested on January 18, whereas doing a recce of delicate websites in Ayodhya earlier than the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony of Ram Lalla.
A senior ATS official mentioned the custody remand of the suspects will begin from 12 midday on January 26 and proceed until 6 p.m. on February 1 throughout which they are going to be questioned about their intentions behind doing the recce in Ayodhya and their different hyperlinks with Khalistani terrorists based mostly in Canada.
The ATS official mentioned the particular decide of NIA/ATS court docket in Lucknow, Vivekanand Sharan Tripathi, granted the custody remand of all three suspects recognized as Rajasthan residents Shankar Dussad a.ok.a. Shankar Jajod, Ajit Kumar Sharma and Pradeep Puniya. He mentioned Shankar Dussad and Pradeep Puniya have been residents of Sikar district whereas Ajit Kumar Sharma was a resident of Jhunjhunu district.
As per the ATS official, the three suspects had been underneath radar since January 17 evening and have been arrested after their Khalistani hyperlinks have been confirmed when a recorded voice message by Khalistani leaders was circulated on some folks’s cellphones in Lucknow.
The recorded voice message was in a male voice. Within the message, a person posing as Canada-based Khalistan terrorist Gurupatwant Singh Pannu, addressing Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, mentioned that Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) (a US-based group that helps the secession of Punjab from India as Khalistan) was going to carry him (Yogi) accountable on January 22 and Ram temple pran pratishtha was not going to save lots of him.
This alerted the safety companies. The UP ATS officers mentioned after complaints from a number of folks of getting obtained such recorded voice calls from completely different international numbers, digital and cyber consultants of the ATS had been placed on the job to hint the particular person or group behind it.