Chandigarh, Nov. 28 -- The suspicious blast at the Gurdaspur city police station is not an isolated case in Punjab. Over the past year, the state police have been grappling with such incidents wherein the miscreants, often tasked by various banned organisations, have targeted police and other establishments. Over the last three months, three such blasts have occurred in the state, all initially dismissed by police as non-terror incidents. Since September 2024, at least 21 suspicious grenade attacks have been reported in the state, of which 15 have been on police installations. A gangster, Varinder Singh, was neutralised in police action on September 28, who had hurled a grenade at a liquor vend on the outskirts of Nawanshahr city. Through an unverified social media post shared from an unauthenticated page of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), fugitive gangsters Gopi Nawanshahria, Mannu Agwan and Zeeshan Akhtar took responsibility for the attack. On August 7, unidentified miscreants threw explosives at another liquor vend in Nawashahr, and the BKI claimed responsibility for it. On November 16, a social media post by BKI also claimed responsibility for throwing a grenade at the Talwara police station of Hoshiarpur district; however, police never acknowledged the incident. According to a senior Punjab Police functionary, the Khalistan Liberation Army (KLA), which has claimed responsibility for hurling a grenade at Gurdaspur police station, is believed to be an offshoot of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF). "The KLA's leadership structure and current head are not publicly known. Many gangsters sometimes try to misguide the police by claiming responsibility for some little-known organisations," the official added, pleading anonymity....