Bathinda, Oct. 3 -- The 19-year-old law student from Bathinda's Jeeda village, Gurpreet Singh, who is in jail for assembling explosives in his grandmother's room on September 10, had no handler and there was no terror organisation linked to the episode, investigators have said. Gurpreet is learnt to have been influenced by the radical Islamic social media content.

Sources close to the family said Gurpreet's grandmother was visiting her extended family for a few days so he occupied her room temporarily. "After twin blasts last month in which Gurpreet and his father Jagtar Singh suffered serious injuries, we learnt that he was doing some kinds of experiments with chemicals," said a villager, requesting anonymity. The first explosion was mi...