India, April 8 -- At 22, Mohammad Zeeshan Akhtar has emerged as the key conspirator behind the second grenade attack in his hometown of Jalandhar in Punjab in less than a month.

Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh on Tuesday afternoon, Punjab Police special director general of police Arpit Shukla named Akhtar as the key conspirator behind the grenade blast at the house of senior BJP leader and former state minister Manoranjan Kalia in the wee hours.

The blast comes less than a month after Akhtar, along with Pakistan-based ISI agent Shahzaad Bhatti, lobbed a grenade at YouTuber Rozer Sandhu's house at Raipur Rasoolpur village in Jalandhar district. There was no loss of life and damage to property as the grenade didn't explode in ...