Amritsar, Feb. 28 -- A key accused involved in hurling explosives in Amritsar's Jaintipur and Batala's Raimal was killed in an exchange of fire with the police in Batala on Thursday evening.

The development came hours after the police busted Pakistan's ISI-backed Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terror module with the arrest of its two operatives identified as Mohit of Buddhe di Khui in Batala and Vishal of Basarpura in Batala.

Punjab director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav's post on X, earlier in the day, had read: "Punjab Police busts a terror module backed by Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI-Pakistan) responsible for attacks in Batala and solves the attack cases in Jaintipur and Raimal car...