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Punjab jailbreak: Escaped Khalistani terrorist Harminder Singh Mintoo arrested near Delhi

Mintoo was arrested by Punjab police in November 2014 after he was deported from Thailand and was wanted in 10 terror cases.

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Harminder Mintoo was nabbed on the basis of inputs passed on by Punjab police.
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Khalistan Liberation Front chief Harminder Mintoo who had escaped along with five others from Nabha jail in Punjab on Sunday has been arrested by Delhi police.

"Mintoo has been arrested from Delhi railway station by Delhi police," said a senior official of Punjab police in Chandigarh.

He said Delhi police nabbed the dreaded terrorist on the basis of inputs passed on by Punjab police.

Police sources confirmed that Mintoo and his associate had taken a bus from Kaithal. Later Mintoo de-boarded the bus near Kurukshetra and then took a bus to Panipat and then another bus to reach the national capital.

Sources also said that he was planning to leave the country and for that had even booked a ticket to Panvel, Maharastra. He had decided to reach Panvel and then gradually proceed to Goa and later fly off from the country.

Mintoo and others had escaped after armed men in police uniform tricked the sentries into opening the gates and bolted out with the inmates firing a hail of bullets.

However, hours later, the alleged "mastermind" of the daring daylight jailbreak, Parminder Singh, was arrested from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district when the getaway vehicle--a Toyota Fortuner--was stopped at a police picket.

A self-loading rifle (SLR), three rifles and several rounds of ammunition were recovered from the SUV during the search, UP's Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Daljit Singh Chaudhary said.

Mintoo was arrested in 10 cases including the 2008 attack on Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and recovery of explosives at Halwara Air Force Station in 2010.

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal said Pakistan could be behind the incident as it was desperate to revive terrorism in the state post-surgical strike across LoC and assured that the "conspiracy" will be unravelled soon.

The others who fled were gangster Vicky Gaundar, Amandeep Dhotian, Gurpreet Sekhon, Nita Deol and Kashmira Singh, who is also a terrorist.

A high alert has been sounded in Punjab and Haryana after the incident with security around railway stations, airports, inter-state bus terminuses and other places of key importance stepped up.

(With agency inputs)

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