Khalistan Liberation Front chief Harminder Singh Mintoo, who had escaped from Nabha jail on Sunday, was arrested by the police in New Delhi on Monday.
Armed men in police uniform had stormed the high-security Nabha Jail on Sunday, opening indiscriminate fire and fleeing with five prisoners including Mintoo, an accused in 10 cases.
News reports had also suggested that Mintoo had ties with the Inter-Services Intelligence in Pakistan.
Mintoo was earlier arrested by Punjab Police from Delhi’s IGI Airport in 2014. He was arrested in connection with 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.
According to another report in The Indian Express, Mintoo simply decided to join the group which had conducted the jailbreak after he found out about the plan. The report said that the armed men had initially not planned to free him.
“Palwinder told us that the plan was only to get the gangsters freed. But Gurpreet Sekhon had told Mintoo that they would escape on Sunday. Mintoo was keeping a watch and joined them in the jail corridor,” The Indian Express quoted Daljit Singh Chaudhary, UP ADGP (Law and order), as saying.
