Nabha Jailbreak: Escapee Khalistani Liberation Force chief Harminder Singh Mintoo dies in jail

Khalistani militant and Nabha jailbreak accused Harminder Singh Mintoo died of cardiac arrest in Punjab's Patiala city on Wednesday.

Mintoo, the chief of Khalistani Liberation Force (KLF), was lodged in the Patiala Central Jail along with other accused of the 2016 jailbreak case.

"Harminder Singh Mintoo suffered a heart attack in Patiala central jail. He was taken to the government hospital in Patiala where he was declared brought dead by doctors," Punjab Police Inspector General A S Rai said.

Mintoo, aged around 50 years, was facing several criminal cases including terror charges. He  was arrested by Punjab Police after he was deported from Thailand in November 2014.

He had escaped the Nabha jail along with five other inmates on November 28, 2016, but was nabbed from the Nizammuddin Railway Station in Delhi a day later.

He was earlier a member of Babbar Khalsa International and later floated his own group.

On November 27, 2016, 15 men in police uniform, armed with sophisticated weapons, had stormed the maximum security jail at Nabha in Patiala district and had managed to free six prisoners, including two terrorists and four hardcore gangsters. While Mintoo, Kashmir Singh were facing terror charges; Amandeep Dhothian, Vicky Gounder, Gurpreet Sekhon and Neeta Deol were known gangsters.

Delhi's Patiala House Court, on April 11, had awarded Mintoo a three-month imprisonment for escaping.

Ramanjit Singh alias Romi, the main conspirator in the infamous jail break was arrested by Chinese law enforcement agencies and Hong Kong Police in February.