India, April 29 -- In a major breakthrough, Punjab Police on Tuesday cracked a Pakistan-backed, pro-Khalistan terror module responsible for a botched bomb attempt on a Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) railway track near Shambhu in Patiala district. Four highly radicalised operatives were arrested, and a cache of arms, explosives and communication devices was recovered, officials said.

The low-intensity blast occurred late on Monday night near Bothonia village on the Rajpura-Shambhu rail section (Shambhu-Ambala line). Police initially described it as a low-intensity explosion but later confirmed it was an attempted detonation of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that went off prematurely. One module member, Jagroop Singh, aka Joopa (39...