Panjab University student leaders arrested for association with gangsters involved in Nabha Jailbreak

PATIALA: The district police today claimed to have arrested two student leaders of

Punjab University Chandigarh

for their alleged association with the gangsters, who are accused in the Nabha Jailbreak.

Confirming the development, Superintendent of Police

H S Virk

(investigation) said that Harman Virk a resident of Samana and is the working presidents of

Gandhi group Students Union

(GGSU) and his close aid Armaan Cheema, who hails from Patiala, were arrested for supplying drugs to the Gangsters inside the jail.

He said that a case under Sections 392, 382, 384, 506, 148, 149 and 120 B of IPC and under Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act had been registered against two at

Rajpura Sadar Police station

on October 23 on the basis of a tip-off received by the police investigators following which the two have been arrested. The two were nabbed from the room of a hotel located on the national highway near Uksi village in Rajpura today morning.

The two were in touch with Neeta Deol and would supply hum drugs and would also help him with money from time to time. They were also in contact with Gurpreet Sekhon and other gangsters, who were involved in the Nabha jailbreak, the SP said.

The police team that arrested the two also recovered 700 grams of narcotics, two passports and a car numbered PB 11 CF 8694 from their possession. The passports recovered were in the name of Kulwinder Singh, a resident of Sidhana village in Bathinda, who is already an accused in the Nabha Jailbreak and Jasdeep Kaur, daughter of Baldev Khan and a resident of Siddha village in Bathinda district.

He said that the investigators had also stumbled upon details that the two had provided shelter to some of the gangsters involved in the Nabha jailbreak prior to the incident and were also instrumental in assisting in their escape after the Jailbreak.

The police said the two would be produced before a local court and seek their remand.