Nabha jailbreak: Khalistan Liberation Front Chief nabbed from railway station in Delhi

NEW DELHI (INDIA):  Khalistan Liberation Front Chief Harminder Singh Mintoo, who had escaped from Nabha jail in Punjab along with five other inmates yesterday, has been nabbed from Nizamuddin railway station here.nnThe militant outfit leader was arrested late last night from Nizamuddin railway station, Arvind Deep, special commissioner of police, Special Cell, said today.nn”Punjab Police had suspicion about his movement towards Delhi and they contacted Delhi Police. Following intensive checking and tracking, he was arrested from the railway station last night,” said the officer.nnA team of Punjab police will take him back to the state.nnIt is the second arrest in the case. UP police last evening arrested the alleged “mastermind” of the daring daylight jailbreak, Parminder Singh.nnHe was arrested from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh’s Shamli district when the getaway vehicle–a Toyota Fortuner–was stopped at a police picket.nnMintoo yesterday escaped along with five other prisoners in a sensational jailbreak after armed men in police uniform tricked the sentries into opening the gates of the jail in Patiala, nearly 200 km from here, and bolted out with the inmates while firing a hail of bullets.nnOfficials said efforts are on to nab the other prisoners who managed to flee.nnMintoo was arrested by Punjab Police after he was deported from Thailand in November 2014. He was wanted in ten terror cases.nnThe KLF chief was brought to India along with his key aide Gurpeet Singh ‘Gopi’ after Punjab Police, in coordination with central agencies, traced them in Thailand, a senior police official said.nnAmong the escapees was another terrorist Kashmira Singh, according to Punjab police chief Suresh Arora.nnSource: Press Trust of India