Harminder Singh ‘Mintoo’, Khalistan Liberation Force chief along with five others escaped from the high-security jail in Nabha on Sunday. After the news got spread police did a search operation and ‘Mintoo was arrested near Delhi railway station on Monday.
"Mintoo has been arrested from Delhi railway station by Delhi police," said a senior official of Punjab police in Chandigarh.
He said "Delhi police nabbed the dreaded terrorist on the basis of inputs passed on by Punjab police. We passed on the information about Mintoo following which Delhi police arrested him."
He said "a team of Punjab police will go to Delhi to bring him back.It is the second arrest in the case. UP police last evening arrested the alleged "mastermind" of the daring daylight jailbreak, Parminder Singh.
He was arrested from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district when the getaway vehicle--a Toyota Fortuner-was stopped at a police picket. A group of armed men in police uniform broke into high-security Nabha Central jail of Punjab yesterday and took along six inmates including Mintoo."
After the arrest, the Punjab Government suspended the Director General (Jail) for the negligence. The government also removed the Nabha Jail superintendent and deputy jail superintendent. A special task force was also formed to look into the Nabha jailbreak incident.
'Mintoo' was arrested by Punjab Police after he was deported from Thailand in November 2014.
"The KLF chief was brought to India along with his key aide Gurpeet Singh ‘Gopi’ after Punjab Police, in coordination with central agencies, traced them in Thailand", a senior police official said.
Mintoo is involved in ten terror offences while Gopi was asked to target Hindu outfit leaders in 2013.
The then Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini had then claimed that "Pakistan’s spy agency ISI was making concerted efforts to use terror outfits like KLF and Babbar Khalsa to revive terrorism in Punjab, with the focus on carrying out killings of prominent leaders belonging to a particular community."
"To strengthen KLF, he had developed independent contacts with the foreign-based supporters and fundraisers of terrorism," the official said.
"When he was in Pakistan, Mintoo worked with Babbar Khalsa International. But, but being ambitious and a good organiser, he developed independent contacts with Pakistan’s ISI and Europe and North America-based terrorist sympathisers and fund raisers and had planned to raise his own outfit," police had then said.
"During his stay in Pakistan, he had visited Europe in 2010 to establish contacts and in June 2013, he left Pakistan for an extensive tour of Europe lasting 11 months," police had then said.
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BY M. DIVYA SRI
