India, April 8 -- Unidentified attackers threw a grenade at former Punjab minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manoranjan Kalia's residence in Jalandhar around 1am on Tuesday, damaging a glass partition at the entrance and a car and motorcycle parked there. Kalia and his family were home when it was attacked. No one was hurt in the attack.

This was the first such attack on a politician's residence in Punjab after a series of grenade attacks on police stations. In March, a grenade was hurled at YouTuber Rozer Sandhu in Jalandhar's Raipur Rasoolpur village.

Police commissioner Dhanpreet Kaur Randhawa, who was among the top police officers who rushed to the scene, said they have begun the process of registering a First Informat...