IEDs in three minutes, Hawara reveals lethal skills

“He described it in detail. Take two pieces of clothes, stitch them, fill it with explosives, fix an electricity wire in the explosives and attach it with a detonator linked to an electric switch. Provide a spark using an electric circuit,” an interrogation team member said.

Describing the advantages of using IEDs, Hawara told police that they reduce the chances of getting caught, are better than shooting down a target, are safe for terrorists and involve very few men. Hawara also mentioned that he and his men operated on the orders of seniors from ‘‘abroad’’.

“He was given orders to assassinate certain bigwigs of the country by Mehal Singh, Satnam Singh and Wadhawa Singh, the chiefs of Babbar Khalsa International, operating from outside India. Hawara used to get money through Hawala after he escaped from

Burail,” a senior police official said.

‘Six days in sugarcane fields’

CHANDIGARH: Well-trained in subsisting on natural resources, Hawara claims to have stayed in sugarcane fields near Samrala for over six days as in winters, when even the farmers do not enter. He told police that he had survived on a bag full of dry fruits and two blankets.

On Day 3 of his interrogation yesterday, UT Police took Hawara to various places in Punjab for conducting raids. The places were selected on the basis of his disclosures. Police officials refused to divulge further details. Today, he is being taken to New Delhi to appear in the Delhi blast case.

Strategy

• Recruitment of youngsters (no matter from which community they come) to strengthen BKI

• Exploitation of people’s sentiments by forcing them to remember Operation Blue Star and the 1984 riots

• Identifying the movements of those leaders who spoke against Sikh religion

• Creating terror in the minds of the public with an aim to revive BKI.