A day after the Khalistan liberation Front (Force) chief Harminder Singh ‘Mintoo’ and four other criminals escaped from the high security Nabha jail in Punjab, Uttarakhand police arrested one ludhiana native Aditya alias Binni and a woman from Danda lakhond in Raipur, Dehradun and seized a cache of firearms from the rented residence of one of the alleged accomplices in the jailbreak — Sunil.
A native of ludhiana, Sunil is a close aide of the principal conspirator of the jail break Gurvinder alias Perminder who was arrested from Shamli (Uttar Pradesh) on Sunday. The woman Geeta who was arrested was the wife of Sunil and Aditya used to run the errands of Sunil, police said, adding that Sunil used to give shelter to Gurvindar in his rented residence.
A team has been formed to arrest Sunil who has been absconding at the earliest, police said. Teams from UP Police and Punjab Police aside from some intelligence officers from both the states arrived in Dehradun on Monday morning to interrogate the arrested duo.
Police further said that Gurvinder had left Dehradun around five days ago. Notice has been issued to the house owner. High alert has been issued across Uttarakhand following the link being found here with the jailbreak.
Soon after the jailbreak occurred Dehradun SSP Sadanand Date formed a team led by SP City Ajay Singh to act on the supposed Dehradun link of the incident. Other members of the team were police station in charge of Dalanwala police station, Raipur police station, Rajpur police station, Nehru Colony police station, SOG in-charge, IT in-charge and sub inspector.
The investigation revealed that anti-national activities were being conducted from the rented house in Raipur. Team raided the locked house after breaking it open. Aside from cash amounting to `two lakh, firearms, bomb-making ingredients, battery cells, iron bullets, mobile phones, chargers, iron rods, electronic compact scales (measuring weight), pliers and other tools were recovered. Besides, three identification cards and 123 soft copies of Adhar cards were seized from the raided house.
An investigating officer said that the magnitude of the seizure had made it clear that those residing there were linked to the terrorist gang now trying to revive the separatist movement in Punjab after a lull of some years.
According to Police, Gurvindar might have returned to Dehradun on way to Nepal via Banbasa had he not been arrested from Shamli.
Police said that an accused of the infamous Shivani murder case, Sunil had been lodged in Nabha jail from where he escaped in 2014. During the time he was in Nabha jail he came into contact with Gurvinder. Both escaped together and assured the KlF chief Harminder Singh Mintoo that they would help him escape from Nabha jail in the coming days.