Chandigarh/Jalandhar, April 24 -- Punjab Police on Tuesday claimed to have averted possible target killing planned by cross-border operatives with the arrest of one member linked to a Pak-based terror module.

Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said that the arrested accused has been identified as Lovepreet Singh alias Picho of Udho Nangal village in Amritsar. Police teams have also recovered one .30-bore automatic Chinese pistol along with a magazine and four live cartridges from his possession.

DGP Yadav said that acting swiftly on the intelligence and human-intelligence inputs, Police teams from Jalandhar Counter Intelligence laid a special naka (checkpoint) in the area of Rama Mandi and arrested the accused person after reco...