Manjit Singh Rattu's police remand extended for another five days

The police demanded his remand for ten days to make certain recoveries including his passports. The police had alkready serached his residence in Chandigarh and Jalandhar. The police is looking into terrorist links of Rattu. His six dasy remand eneded on Friday.

He was arrested by Haryana police for cheating Deep Communication from where he had purchased 10 mobiles. His involvement is suspected in bomb blasts in Pakistan in which case Sarabjit Singh has been given death sentence.

Rattu was earlier also arrested by Jalandhar Police in an abduction case where his links with the Khalistan Commando Force were revealed. "In 1992, Manjit was arrested by Jalandhar police headed by Superintendent of Police Mohammad Mustafa. During interrogation, Rattu had revealed his links of the ##ad_2##KCF and the Babbar Khalsa terrorist group, operating from Pakistan," said a senior Punjab police official.

"This time also he was arrested in cases of cheating and fraud. Jalandhar police have taken him on transit remand. The main focus of Punjab police is to trace out Rattu's nexus with the terrorist sleeper cells operating in Punjab," said the official, on condition of anonymity.

Punjab police was searching for him for the last six months following various arrests of terrorists and spies in 2010. More than a dozen of terrorists were apprehended from different regions of the State during the current year. In August this year, three Pakistani spies were arrested from Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Ferozepur. They had been living in the State for the past several years. After their arrest, the police officials had claimed that major terrorist activity could be possible in the State.