The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out searches at 19 locations across Punjab in connection with the March 2025 grenade attack on Thakur Dwara Sanatan Temple in Amritsar.
The agency said the searches were conducted in the border districts of Amritsar, Gurdaspur, and Batala. Several digital devices and other “incriminating materials” were seized during the raids, which are part of the ongoing probe into the terror conspiracy.
The case, registered under RC-08/2025/NIA/DLI, pertains to a grenade attack on the temple located on Sher Shah Road in Amritsar on the night of March 14. The NIA said the attack was one among a spate of recent grenade attacks in Punjab carried out on the directions of handlers based abroad.
According to the NIA, the temple attack was executed by Gursidak Singh, who is now deceased, and Vishal Gill. Investigators have found that Gursidak was in direct contact with foreign handlers who recruited and radicalised vulnerable Indian youth using money and drugs, and provided them with grenades, explosives, and funds to carry out terror strikes.
The agency said both Gursidak and Gill were also involved in multiple instances of transporting grenades and weapons as part of the wider terror network.
The NIA said further investigations were underway as it continues its crackdown on terror modules targeting national security and sovereignty.
