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ISI human bomb plot unearthed

The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence has hatched 'a conspiracy' to liquidate Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and some other top political leaders through human bombs.

Disclosing this at a media conference, Haryana Director General of Police A S Bhatotia said the ISI had also hatched a conspiracy against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, his son Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is the Union minister of state for industries, and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.

He said the state police had stepped up security arrangements.

He said the ISI had persuaded Purshotam Singh of Ambala, Narinder Singh of Kurukshetra and Rattandeep Singh of Safidon to act as human bombs.

He said that the state police had launched a 'vigorous manhunt' to nab the three ISI agents.

He said Rattandeep Singh had already been declared an absconder. It was said that he and his wife had escaped to Pakistan.

The Haryana police was coordinating with its Delhi and Punjab counterparts to nab the human bombs.

He said the Uttar Pradesh police had arrested dreaded terrorist Kashmira Singh, who belongs to Jind district of Haryana, from Udham Singh Nagar. He said a police party was being sent there to interrogate him.

Many terrorists, who had planned to create disturbances during the elections, had been killed in the Terai area of Udham Singh Nagar recently. The Delhi police had also arrested dreaded terrorist Charanjit Singh, wanted by the Haryana police.

UNI

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