India, April 8 -- Punjab Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of two men suspected of lobbing a grenade at the house of senior BJP leader and former minister Manoranjan Kalia in Jalandhar in the wee hours.

Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh in the afternoon, special director general of police, law and order, Arpit Shukla said that the two suspects had been arrested and the e-rickshaw used to commit the crime had also been confiscated.

"The involvement of Pakistan-based gangsters Shehzaad Bhatti and Zeeshan Akhtar, an aide of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, has surfaced," Shukla said.

Akhtar, who is from Jalandhar and at large, is accused of killing former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Baba Siddiqui in Mumbai on Octob...