Continuing with its drive to thwart the nefarious designs of foreign based terrorist groups to disturb peace in Punjab, state police arrested three more persons associated with so-called Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) along with sophisticated arms and ammunition, today.

Gurdaspur District Police Chief, Sukhwant Singh Gill said that the arrested persons belonged to a sleeper cell of KLF being controlled by a foreign-based terrorist Harminder Singh. He said they were planning to target specific persons to ignite communal violence in the state. Police is examining the cross-linkages between the other three modules involving 14 men recently arrested.