September 17 |
Ludhiana District |
The STF arrested three members of the BKI group
along with 2.5 kilograms of Heroin from Ludhiana city in Ludhiana
District of Punjab. The STF arrested Gurlal, who, along with two
other men, was going to Firozepur to supply the Heroin, sources
said.
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September 19 |
Uttar Pradesh |
In joint operations that last all of last week,
Punjab Police and UP ATS have arrested six suspects who had non-bailable
warrants issued against them for their role in high-security Nabha
jailbreak in Patiala (Punjab) in November 2016. Police said those
arrested also have links with outlawed group BKI.
One BKI suspect, identified as Harpreet Singh
alias Jitendra Singh Tony was arrested from Mailani area
in Lakhimpur Kheri District. Another BKI suspect, Satnam Singh
was arrested by the joint team of the ATS, Punjab and local Police
from Sikanderpur area of the Lakhimpur Kheri District. Sources
said Police are close to busting a network of Sikh militants in
the region, including from Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur
and Lakhimpur Kheri. UP ATS IG Asim Arun said, "One of the terror
suspects, Balwant Singh, who was arrested in Lucknow led us to
Jitendra Singh Toni who is wanted for supplying arms during the
armed jailbreak in November last year."
According to Police officers involved in the investigations,
Baba Babwant Singh, a resident of Naushehra Pannuan in Punjab's
Tarn Taran District, was held on September 16 from Lucknow, while
Jaswant Singh alias Kala, a resident of Sonewala village in Punjab's
Muktsar Sahib district and a close aide of former BKI chief Jagtar
Singh Hawara, was arrested from Unnao District the same day. Both
were also wanted in several cases of targeted killings. Their
interrogation led to more arrests from the region.
Sources added that Harjinder Singh Khalon, a Sikh
leader from Pilibhit, and his aide Amandeep, who is from Udham
Singh Nagar, were arrested from Lucknow based on inputs provided
by Baba Balwant Singh. Punjab ATS IG Vijay Pratap Singh confirmed
the involvement of Harjinder Singh, Amandeep and one Sandeep Tiwari,
who was arrested from Sultanpur, in the armed attack on Nabha
jail on November 27, 2016. "The arrested accuseds were involved
in the armed offensive during the Nabha jailbreak. We are also
trying to trace one of the key conspirators of the jailbreak,
Gopi, who was last seen on September 10 in Shahjahanpur but managed
to flee," Singh said. Soon after the jailbreak last year, west
UP had come under the radar of Punjab Police and was dubbed as
a safe haven for suspects linked to the banned outfit. Hours after
the jailbreak, main conspirator Parvinder Singh was arrested from
Shamli in Uttar Pradesh. At least 10 armed men had broken into
the premises of the high-security Nabha jail and freed six men,
including Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) terrorist Harminder
Mintoo, on November 27.
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November 18 |
Punjab
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Punjab Police are investigating the role of BKI
member Gursharan Bir Singh in the series of targeted killings
of religious leaders in the state over the past two years. Gursharan
is also wanted in the murder of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat head Rulda
Singh in Patiala on July 28, 2009. Punjab DGP Suresh Arora said
that the State Police has got some leads about Gursharan's involvement
while interrogating the men arrested for their alleged role in
the killing of at least eight people, including former Punjab
RSS vice-president Brig Jagdish Gagneja (retd) in Jalandhar. The
State Police had recently arrested UK resident Jagtar Singh Johal
alias Jaggi in the targeted killings case. He was arrested
from Jalandhar.
DGP Suresh Arora said the Police are investigating
the alleged links between Pakistan-based Harmeet Singh who is
believed to be running ISI-back ISYF and another fugitive Rampreet
Singh alias Romy who is in Hong Kong. Romy is believed
to have links with gangsters in Punjab and has been named as an
accused in the 2016 Nabha jailbreak case as well. Police believe
Harmeet trained the men involved in the targeted killings.
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