A 23-year-old college student.
No criminal record.
A third-year BA degree in progress.
And a ₹5,000 UPI transfer that pulled him into one of India's most disturbing cross-border terror networks.
Meet Sandeep Singh.
June 22. Bathinda.
A petrol bomb rips through a homoeopathic clinic.
The targets? A husband-wife duo — Rajni Jindal and Tarsem Garg.
Not criminals. Not gangsters.
Just a BJP district executive member and her husband, the chief warden of the civil defence corps.
Their only unusual move? Recently switching from AAP to BJP.
Police picked up two locals first — Nakul Kumar and Gurwinder Singh.
Paid just ₹500 each to throw the bomb.
Five hundred rupees. For an act of terror.
Then came the third arrest on Bathinda Ring Road.
Sandeep. The student.
The recruiter.
The middleman.
He was allegedly promised ₹10 lakh for arranging the strike. Got ₹5,000 as advance.
And the moment the bomb went off?
He filmed it.
And sent the video across the border.
The couple had been threatened earlier — by someone on a virtual number, claiming to be Shahzad Bhatti.
If that name sounds familiar, it should.
Bhatti's playbook is chillingly simple.
Radicalise online.
Recruit via DMs.
Pay in UPI breadcrumbs.
Outsource the violence to broke, unknown faces.
This isn't the old terror model.
No training camps.
No border crossings.
No sleeper cells hiding for years.
Just a phone.
A virtual number.
A UPI ID.
And a 23-year-old willing to film his own crime for a stranger online.
The motive in Bathinda is still unclear. No extortion demand. No personal feud.
Just a quiet political switch — and suddenly, a clinic in flames.
Cyber teams are now tracing the mystery phone, the virtual number, and wherever Sandeep vanished to after the attack.
But the bigger story is already written.
India's next terror foot soldier may not be hiding in a forest.
He might be sitting in a college classroom. Scrolling Instagram. Waiting for the next ₹5,000 to land.
That's all for now!
