On the BKI trail

Published : Feb 27, 2004 00:00 IST

THE activities of the Babbar Khalsa International from 2000 up to the Burail jailbreak:

April 29, 2002: Police thwart a major conspiracy of the BKI to attack surrendered terrorist leader, Wassan Singh Zaffarwal, and top politicians with the arrest of five BKI terrorists in Gurdaspur, Punjab.

August 31, 2001: Arrested BKI terrorist tells the Punjab Police that he planned to set off explosions at public places. He also reveals to his interrogators that terrorist leaders based in the United Kingdom and Germany were involved in the planning.

May 22, 2001: With the arrest of four terrorists and seizure of 3 kg of RDX and some arms and ammunition from Harchowal village, Batala district, the Punjab Police foils a bomb plot. Manjit Singh, a close associate of BKI's Mahal Singh, had allegedly trained the terrorists to target a local religious procession.

February 28, 2001: The British government proscribes Babbar Khalsa, as per the provisions of the new U.K. Terrorism Act 2000, which became operational in July 2000.

October 27, 2000: Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik, BKI terrorists arrested by the Canadian police for their involvement in the mid-air explosion of Air India Flight-182 Kanishka, off the Irish Coast.

October 14, 2000: The Central Bureau of Investigation and the Delhi Police seize a huge quantity of arms, ammunition and 30 kg of RDX in Libaspur, New Delhi. Official sources believe that they were stored there to be passed on to a Babbar Khalsa terrorist in Punjab.

August 30, 2000: BKI terrorist arrested in Jalandhar district, Punjab, and a cache of 3.9 kg of PETN high explosives and timers is seized. Official sources say they had been tasked by Wadhawa Sigh to target VIPs in Punjab.

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