- Thursday, March 06, 2025
By: PTI
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) was fired at a police station in the border district of Tarn Taran in India’s Punjab, officials said on Saturday (10) with director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav describing it as a military-grade hardware.
According to preliminary information, it is a military-grade hardware, the DGP said, adding that there was a possibility that it was smuggled from across the border.
Rocket-launcher-type weapon fired at police station in Sarhali, Tarn Taran which is a sensitive location at Amritsar-Bathinda Highway@AAPPunjab Govt is busy partying in Gujarat/Delhi as per Kejriwal’s diktat & @BhagwantMann Ji has ignored the peace & security of Border state! pic.twitter.com/A11MrCJKEp
— Manjinder Singh Sirsa (@mssirsa) December 10, 2022
“There is a clear indication that it is a strategy of the neighbouring nation to bleed India by a thousand cuts,” he said.
Some unidentified people fired the projectile which hit the Saanjh Kendra adjoining the Sarhali police station on the Amritsar-Bathinda highway on Friday (9) night, police said.
Rocket launcher attack on Sirhali police station in #TarnTaran district last night, FSL team at spot to investigate. pic.twitter.com/aVBNdzUsHf
— Nikhil Choudhary (@NikhilCh_) December 10, 2022
Saanjh Kendra centre provides services like copy of first information reports (FIRs), passport verification and no-objection certificates.
There was no casualty in the incident, police said.
DGP Yadav, who visited the site, said that according to preliminary investigation, the RPG was fired from the highway around 11.22 pm local time and it hit the Suvidha Centre of the Sarhali police station.
“We have registered an FIR under UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,) in this regard,” the DGP told the media in Tarn Taran.
Yadav said police have recovered the rocket launcher and propeller.
“We are investigating technically and forensically. We are collecting clues from the scene of the crime to reconstruct what happened,” the DGP said.
A forensic team and a squad of the army have reached the site.
To a question, the DGP said there appears to be many similarities of this attack with the Mohali RPG attack incident, though forensic details were being examined.
The projectile first struck the iron grills of the gate of the police station and then hit the Saanjh Kendra centre. The windowpanes of the Saanjh Kendra were damaged in the incident.
There were some police personnel present at the police station when the incident took place.
In May, a RPG was fired at the Punjab Police’s Intelligence headquarters located in the city of Mohali.
