Nabha jailbreak NRI who harboured escapees arrested from Moga

PATIALA: In yet another arrest in the infamous Nabha Jailbreak, the state police on Sunday arrested an Australian NRI,

Kultar Singh Goldi

, who had harboured gangster

Gurpreet Singh Sekhon

, his brother

Manveer Sekhon

,

Rajwinder Raja

and Kulwinder Singh till February 12, 2017, when the four were arrested from his residence in

Dhudike village

.

Confirming the development Moga SSP

Gurpreet Singh Toor

said Goldi had returned to India in January 2017 and was in the country when the Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU) of the state police raided his residence in the Dhudike village and arrested the four persons, who were wanted in the Nabha Jailbreak.

As the cops registered an FIR under Sections 130, 212, 216 and 216-A of the IPC against Goldi and one of his associate Gurwinder Singh alias Gori, a local resident of Moga, he had moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court in April 2017 seeking an anticipatory bail. The court had asked him to join the investigations, but he did not appear before the investigating teams. In December, the same year, the court declared him a proclaimed offenders.

The SSP said the cops were on his trail and on Sunday they finally managed to arrest him. He said the police investigations had established that Goldi knew that Gurpreet Sekhon had fled from the Nabha Jail in the daring escape in the November of 2016 and still he provided him shelter at his home.

Three days after the February 12 operation, the cops had also booked an owner of the local gun house on charges of arranging weapons from the jailbreak accused. The police had reportedly recovered two rifles- 12 bore and another 30 along with a .32 calibre pistol from the accused.

On November 27, 2016, 10 attackers, some of whom were dressed in police uniform and 15 facilitators of the crime had freed six inmates of the Nabha Maximum security jail which included gangsters Vicky Gounder, Kulpreet Singh Neeta, Amandeep Dhothian, Gurpreet Sekhon and two terrorists KLF chief Harminder Mintoo and Kashmir Singh Galwaddi. Out of these, the OCCU managed to arrest Kulpreet Singh alias Neeta Deol, Amandeep Dhothian, Gurpreet Sekhon and Harminder Mintoo, while Vicky Gounder and his associate Prema Lahoria who had facilitated the jailbreak were killed in a police encounter in the Hindu Mal Kot area on the Punjab-Rajasthan Border on January 28, this year.

While the state police have so far made more than 35 arrests in the Nabha Jailbreak case but escaped militant Kashmir Singh and some other gangsters involved in the incident are still at large.

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