Chandigarh: Amid mounting chorus to resume international flights from Amritsar, an intelligence document sent to the Punjab government and Amritsar airport authorities has now revealed that the Amritsar-Delhi-Toronto flight, that was cancelled last year, could have been discontinued due to a bomb threat by several radical Sikh groups based in Canada.
The intel note, dated August 12, 2012, sent as a routine alert before I-Day, to the airport authorities across India, had cited "the unleashed protests against hanging of Punjab militant Balwant Singh Rajoana by radicals, looking to plan an attack on Air India flights from Amritsar as a cause for concern".
The note said they had alerted the national carrier and intelligence agencies across India, through several messages, on "possible attacks at airports including Amritsar and Hyderabad".
20/04/13 Times of India
