Chandigarh: Punjab police on Thursday said that they have arrested a soldier, posted in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri, for allegedly training the main accused in the grenade Jalandhar-based YouTuber involved in grenade attack last month.
Official sources said that accused, Sepoy Sukhcharan Singh, 30, a resident of Punjab’s Muktsar, was recruited into the Army in 2015 and was posted with 163 Infantry Brigade in Rajouri.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Jalandhar-Rural, Harvinder Singh Virk, said Sukhcharan Singh’s name came out during the interrogation of the main accused, Hardik Kamboj, who hurled the grenade at YouTuber Rozer Sandhu’s residence.
However, no one was injured as the grenade did not explode.
Nine people have been arrested in this incident.
Sukhcharan Singh has also been found involved in the case, and a court has sent him to five days police custody, Virk told the media in Jalandhar.
He said the main accused and the sepoy came in contact with each other through social media. He said the sepoy had provided training on removing the grenade pin via video calls.
As per investigations, they became friends on Instagram. He is alleged to have imparted online training with a dummy grenade and then showed how to use an actual grenade. An object resembling a grenade was thrown at the residence of Sandhu, in Maqsudan, Jalandhar, on March 16, but fortunately, it did not cause any damage.