One arrested in UP for Nabha jailbreak

Parminder alias Penda was travelling in an SUV when his vehicle was intercepted by police at a check post in Kairana in Shamli district in western Uttar Pradesh, police said. He tried to flee but was apprehended. Police said it has recovered an SLR and three other rifles from his possession. 

ADG (law and order)  Daljeet Choudhury s a i d that police had heightened security as it had apprehensions that the accused in  the jailbreak may try to flee to Nepal. 

The ADG said that Parminder had ‘confessed’ to his involvement during questioning. He was also allegedly wanted in connection with the murder of a policeman. 

Khalistan Liberation Front militant outfit Harminder Mintoo escaped along with five other prisoners after armed men in police uniform stormed the high-security Nabha prison in Patiala in Punjab, which is about 175 km from Kairana. 

The others who fled were gangster Vicky Gaundar, Amandeep Dhotian, Gurpreet Sekhon, Nita Deol and Kashmira Singh, who is also a terrorist.  Earlier, the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal visited the Nabha Jail on Sunday afternoon to have first-hand information about the daring jail break. Badal spent about 40 minutes in the jail. The Deputy Chief Minister did not speak to the media. 

The Government has dismissed the jail superintendent and deputy superintendent and placed Additional DGP Jails under suspension. Punjab DGP Suresh Arora said that the Punjab  Government has constituted a five-member SIT to probe the sensational Nabha Jail break case. Arora did  not rule out connivance of jail staff.