The slain gangster was identified as Ranjit Singh Rana, a resident of Marari village in Amritsar district, said DIG (border range) Satinder Singh. The injured cop is out of danger and was referred to a hospital in Amritsar.
While police maintained that it was a car radiator going off, a social media post, purportedly by USA-based terrorist Happy Passian, went viral soon after the incident. In the post, Passian claimed responsibility for what he termed was a grenade attack carried out to avenge the killing of two of his associates in a fake encounter.