Escaped Khalistan Chief Harminder Singh Mintoo Nabbed  

New Delhi, Nov 28: Khalistan Liberation Front Chief Harminder Singh Mintoo, who had escaped from Nabha jail in Punjab along with five other inmates on Sunday, has been nabbed from Nizamuddin railway station here.

The militant outfit leader was arrested late last night from Nizamuddin railway station, Arvind Deep, special commissioner of police, Special Cell, said on Monday. 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.

A team of Punjab police will take him back to the state. It is the second arrest in the case. UP police last evening arrested the alleged mastermind of the daring daylight jailbreak, Parminder Singh. He was arrested from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district when the getaway vehicle--a Toyota Fortuner--was stopped at a police picket. Mintoo 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. Officials said efforts are on to nab the other prisoners who managed to flee.

Mintoo was arrested by Punjab Police after he was deported from Thailand in November 2014. He was wanted in ten terror cases. The 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. Among the escapees was another terrorist Kashmira Singh, according to Punjab police chief Suresh Arora.

49-year-old Mintoo, chief of the banned Khalistan Liberation Force, is accused in more than 10 terror cases, including an attack on Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim. He was arrested in 2014 when he arrived from Thailand at the Delhi airport.

The Punjab police said he was trying to revive the Khalistan separatist movement and was in touch with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence officers. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's son and deputy Sukhbir Badal said Pakistan could be behind the jailbreak, that it was desperate to stir trouble in India after the surgical strikes.

Months ahead of the election in Punjab, the opposition seized on the jailbreak to target the state government, accusing it of "complicity".

--PTI