A joint team of UP Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) and Punjab Police nabbed two persons engaged in supply of arms to a gang involved in Nabha jail break of Patiala (Punjab) from lakhmimpur Kheri late on Monday night.
IG of ATS (UP) Aseem Arun said in lucknow on Tuesday that acting on the disclosure made by perpetrators of Nabha jail break in November 2016, a joint team of ATS and Punjab Police raided a Mailani hideout in lakhimpur Kheri late on Mondaynight and arrested wanted criminal Jitendra Singh Toni. The arrested supplied arms to inmates who fled from Nabha Jail at Patiala on November, 2016. The IG also revealed that Satnam Singh of Sikanderpur area of lakhimpur, whose name had surfaced during quizzing of Babbar Khalsa operative arrested in lucknow on August 17, was also arrested by the joint team in the wee hours of Tuesday. Arun said that a Punjab court had earlier issued warrants against the duo. Both were later taken to Punjab for producing them in a designated court.