Pilibhit Encounter: Where did the terrorists stay for 30 hours after leaving the hotel? Who did they meet? Answers to these questions are yet to be found.

Posted on 26th Dec 2024 by rohit kumar

As per the strategy, Khalistani terrorists reached Puranpur in Pilibhit and took shelter in a hotel through their helpers. After staying one night, they left Hotel Harji at 9.40 pm on 21 December. About 30 hours later, all three were killed in an encounter at 5:30 am on 23 December. The next day, all three were killed in an encounter at 5:30 am on 23 December. Where did the terrorists stay for about 30 hours after leaving the hotel? Whom did they meet? Which local helper did they go to and what conspiracy did they hatch? Answers to these questions are yet to be found.

 

The grenade-throwing incident was carried out on 18 December at a checkpost in Punjab. After this, the terrorists fled from there and reached Puranpur area of ​​Pilibhit. They covered a distance of about 800 km. After this, the terrorists reached Hotel Harji on Assam Highway in Puranpur at around 8 pm on 20 December to stay. After staying overnight, all three terrorists left the hotel at 9.40 pm on December 21.

 

Where did the terrorists go in these hours?

 

About 30 hours later, on the morning of December 23, the next day, based on location, Punjab Police killed all three in an encounter with Pilibhit Police. Now after the footage and records that came out on Wednesday, many questions have arisen after the terrorists left the hotel about 30 hours ago. Where did the terrorists go in these hours? Whom did they meet? Where did they stay? They were traced in the area based on location. In such a situation, the matter of their having help at the local level is also coming to the fore. Currently, teams of police, NIA, and ATS have started investigating the whole matter.

 

Records were searched for two hours.

 

Police investigated the hotel for about two hours. Footage of CCTV cameras of the hotel was searched. Police got the footage of the terrorists entering the hotel from the main gate. Two other youths were also seen in the footage with them. It is believed that both of them are local helpers of the terrorists, who made the three stay in the hotel.

 

When the terrorists reached the hotel empty-handed, where did they keep their luggage?

 

The activities of five people including three terrorists were captured in the hotel's CCTV footage that came out on Wednesday. The terrorists were not found to be carrying any luggage. In such a situation, the question arises that the terrorists kept their luggage at some helper's place before reaching the city.

 

So the terrorists reached Puranpur by bus.

 

It is coming to light that the terrorists who fled from Punjab and reached Puranpur came by bus. After the incident on 18 December, the terrorists absconded and reached Puranpur on the evening of 20 December after traveling 800 km. Now the police are investigating the CCTVs installed at other places apart from the main routes.

 

NIA, ATS reached Lakhimpur to investigate the links between the terrorists

 

After the terrorists stayed in the hotel using fake IDs and getting clues about the helpers, other intelligence agencies including NIA and ATS have become active in Lakhimpur along with Puranpur. According to sources, ATS and NIA teams conducted investigations in Lakhimpur on Wednesday. NIA and STS teams have camped in Puranpur to find the local connections of the three terrorists of Khalistan Zindabad Force killed in the police encounter.

 

ATS and NIA also became active in Lakhimpur on the rumors of fake IDs of terrorists staying in the hotel, which their helpers saw in the footage and the aunt of a terrorist staying in the Lakhimpur district. It is being said that the teams have started the investigation after reaching Lakhimpur. The terrorists staying in the Puranpur hotel must have planned to escape to Nepal or other countries with the help of fake visas. Intelligence agencies are also keeping an eye on the Nepal border.