Terror module recruits kept low, had no criminal record

Chandigarh : The terror module busted by the state police on Sunday was allegedly operated by Pakistan-based Khalistan Zindabad Force militant Harmeet alias Happy Phd, while the network of all operatives was spread in the UK, France and Italy. Happy’s name had figured in the questioning of the members of the previous terror modules also.
The accused whose arrest was announced yesterday — Jimmy Singh of Jammu, Jagtar Singh Johal alias Jaggi and gangster Dharmendra alias Guggni — were being questioned for further leads.
Police sources claimed that the questioning had revealed they operated with a new modus operandi in which sub-groups of the module worked on different aspects of the killings.
The sources said unlike the usual functioning of the Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), this terror module operated with one group arranging the weapons, another radicalising the youths, yet another finalising the targets and conducting recce, while the fourth carrying out the killings.
The questioning has revealed that after the killings, the assailants quietly went about their life. “None of them had a criminal record. They were not known criminals or activists of a specific ideology,” said a police official.