Chandigarh: In a major revelation in the deadly Gurdaspur terror attack, a suspicious satellite phone call from near Jalandhar was made post the attack, said sources on Tuesday.
Sources said that there are fears that a breakaway group from the Gurdaspur module might have used the phone and the call was made using a UAE based satellite phone service provider.
A search operations has been on for the last four days.
Sources added that the phone was active in Pakistan on July 22, almost the same time as GPS coordinates were fed into devices used by the terrorists killed in Gurdaspur.
It was earlier revealed that one of the gloves worn by the three terrorists killed in the attack, had a 'Made in Pakistan' symbol. The revelation highlighted Pakistan link in the terror attack.
It was also revealed the terrorists had crossed over from Pakistan on July 26-27 night using Ravi river and they had more targets. Analysis of the two GPS machines recovered from the three slain terrorists showed that the details of the routes and targets had been fed into these on July 21, sources said.
"The initial data gathered from Global Positioning System (GPS) shows that the three terrorists started from a safe house in Gharot in Shakargarh, Pakistan on late Sunday night and crossed over to Bamiyal town in Pathankot, which is close to the international border," sources had said.
The terrorists entered India on the intervening night of July 26 and 27 and used Ravi river to cross over, the sources said. "This route of rivulets along the border was used by them as the security apparatus here is inadequate," the sources had said, adding from Bamiyal, they had walked down to Amritsar-Jammu highway.
The night vision devices used by the terrorists were likely to be smuggled from Afghanistan. The night vision devices which were found on a railway track near Gurdaspur had US government markings on them. US troops lost many such devices in Afghanistan.
The terrorists killed seven people including one Superintendent of Police Baljeet Singh and three home guards before all of them were eliminated.
Eleven unused bombs had been recovered. Three AK-47 rifles, 17 magazines, 55 cartridges, one Rocket launcher, three hand grenades, bullet proof jackets, night vision device and heap of unused bullets were recovered from the site of the encounter, Punjab Police chief Sumedh Singh Saini said.
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