Shamli (UP): Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police claimed to have arrested one of the armed men involved in the sensational jailbreak in Patiala in which a Khalistani militant outfit chief and five other prisoners escaped on Sunday morning.
Parminder alias Penda was travelling in a Toyota Fortuner when his vehicle was intercepted by police at a check post in Kairana in Shamli district in western Uttar Pradesh, police said.
One person (Parminder) arrested in connection with Punjab jailbreak, huge cache of arms recovered from his car in Shamli, UP pic.twitter.com/zNKHK5LweU? ANI (@ANI_news) November 27, 2016
Choudhary told CNN-News18, "Parminder, a resident of Punjab's Jalandhar district, had allegedly killed a policeman in Punjab. He escaped from jail in March this year. Parminder confessed that he was one of the persons who organised and helped Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh Mintoo escape from Nabha Jail on Sunday".
The UP ADG said that police had heightened security as it had apprehensions that the accused in the jailbreak may try to flee to Nepal.
Car with Punjab number plate found in Sonu Majra village in Kaithal (Haryana), suspected to be in connection with #PunjabJailBreak pic.twitter.com/QLiA8KWMps? ANI (@ANI_news) November 27, 2016
Armed men attacked the Nabha Jail on Sunday morning and fired over 100 rounds to help KLF chief Mintoo and four dreaded gangsters to escape without any retaliation from the jail security and Punjab Police.
Mintoo escaped along with five other prisoners Nabha prison which isabout 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.
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