UP ATS arrests two suspected Babbar Khalsa operatives

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad, on Tuesday, arrested two suspected terrorists from Lakhimpur district, who were believed to have links with the Babbar Khalsa terror outfit.

According to the officials, the arrests were made after a 'concrete low-down' from Haryana and Punjab police. They are suspected to have visited the Terai region of Uttar Pradesh for purchase of illegal arms.

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The suspects have been identified as Satnam Singh and Jitendra Singh Toni.

Toni is an accused in a case relating to supply of arms to the terrorists involved in the 2016 jail-break incident in Nabha prison, Patiala.

An ATS officer informed that another Babbar Khalsa operative Balwant Singh, who was arrested in August this year, had revealed about his associates' presence in the Terai region.

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