After Jalandhar, Second Blast Outside BSF Camp In Amritsar

A blast outside the BSF camp in Amritsar took place on late Tuesday, hours after a grenade attack in Jalandhar. No casualties or injuries were reported.

The second attack in a single day has prompted a high security alert in the state.

Amritsar (Rural) SSP Suhail Mir Qasim said preliminary inspection and analysis showed that someone had come and thrown something towards the boundary wall, leading to an explosion.

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After receiving a complaint about the sound of a blast near Khassa cantonment in the late night,

senior police officers immediately rushed to the spot along with the army personnel stationed in the cantonment area.

The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was called to conduct a thorough inspection. The Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team collected samples and evidence from the site and sent them for analysis.

“We are checking how many blasts have occurred and how,” SP Aditya S Warrier said.

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Jalandhar Grenade Attack

It was the second explosion incident hours after a blast occurred outside the headquarters of the Border Security Force’s Punjab Frontier in Jalandhar district around 8 pm on Tuesday. The explosion set a scooter on fire and damaged the traffic signal near the BSF Chowk.

Nobody was hurt, said police, adding that it is yet to be ascertained how the scooter caught fire.

“Prima facie, the facts are that an Activa (scooter) parked here (Jalandhar) caught fire. We are still verifying the facts on the ground,” Jalandhar Police Commissioner Dhanpreet Kaur said.

Meanwhile, a 22-year-old man named Gurpreet Singh has been identified as the one who was riding the scooter.

Talking to reporters, one of his relatives said Gurpreet comes to the area daily to deliver parcels. On Tuesday evening, when he was approaching his parked scooter, it suddenly caught fire. Gurpreet then rang up his father and informed him about the incident, the relative said.

The opposition parties have launched an attack on the AAP government over the “explosion” in Jalandhar.

Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring claimed that an “explosion” near the BSF headquarters in Jalandhar is deeply alarming.

In an X post, he said, “A blast in a delivery scooter in a crowded area exposes a serious collapse of law and order. Punjab is a sensitive border state; such incidents raise grave national security concerns. Yet, while the AAP-led Punjab government is busy parading its MLAs before the President, the BJP-led Centre is equally distracted and failing in its responsibility to ensure security. People deserve safety, not political theatre.” Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia asked if law and order in a border state has collapsed.

“From the Shambhu railway track to the busy BSF Chowk in Jalandhar, continuous blasts within a week — has Punjab’s security completely failed?” he asked.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) General Secretary Bikram Singh Majithia condemned the blast, calling it a serious situation and alleging that the Punjab government has failed to maintain law and order.
He questioned how a blast could occur in such a busy area and criticised the police for allegedly reaching a conclusion within minutes without a proper inquiry, terming it a scooter blast similar to a gas or tyre explosion.

He urged the Union Home Minister and the Prime Minister to take a serious view of the security situation in Punjab, adding that the state continues to suffer due to alleged governance failures.

“Just connect the dots… Just like grenade attacks are often downplayed as tyre bursts, here too the claim of a scooty blast suggests the start of a cover-up operation. Was the Commissioner able to complete the investigation so quickly? Has the forensic team already submitted its report? The cover-up seems to have begun the moment the blast occurred,” he wrote on X.

Punjab BJP General Secretary Parminder Singh Brar said the blast near the BSF headquarters in Jalandhar was a “chilling reminder” of deteriorating law and order in Punjab.

“Blast near BSF HQ in Jalandhar is a chilling reminder of the collapsing law & order in Punjab. A delivery scooter explosion in a crowded area shows how dangerously unsafe public spaces have become. The Aam Aadmi Party Punjab government must be held accountable; governance cannot be replaced by optics and theatrics. Punjab cannot afford this failure. People deserve security, not excuses,” the BJP leader wrote on X.

(with inputs from ANI, PTI)