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Terrorists launch grenade attack on police station in Punjab border village 

Chandigarh: Terrorists attacked a police station in Punjab’s border district of Tarn Taran with a rocket-propelled grenade last night, police said.

The Sarhali Police Station on the Amritsar-Ferozepur Highway came under attack around 11.30 pm causing minor damage to the building. There was no casualty in the incident.

“Preliminary investigation reveals that around 11.22 pm last night, a grenade was fired from the  highway using RPG. It hit the suvidha centre of Sarhali police station. FIR registered under UAPA. Forensic team here. Army squad is here too. We will investigate this technically and forensically, all clues from the scene of the crime are being collected so that we reconstruct what happened. We are recovering the launcher,” said Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav.

Saanjh Kendra centre provides services like copy of FIRs, passport verification and no-objection certificates.

Sarhali is the native place of Khalistani terrorist Harwinder Singh Rinda who is believed to have died in Pakistan.

A member of the banned Khalistani outfit Babbar Khalsa International, Rinda was involved in various terror cases, including the RPG attack on the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in May this year.

The mastermind of the attack on the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters was arrested on Friday from Uttar Pradesh.

Reacting to the incident, the BJP stepped up its attack at the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), blaming the party for the “worrying” law and order situation in the border state.

“Very worrying & a disturbing development! Law & order situation has been in a free fall since AAP formed Govt in Punjab,” Jaiveer Shergill, National Spokesperson of BJP, tweeted.

IN Bureau

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