Patiala, November 27
The Punjab Police and Uttar Pradesh Police late this evening overpowered and arrested gangster Palwinder Singh Pinda, 27, believed to be the mastermind behind the Nabha jailbreak, at Kairana in western UP. He was in a Fortuner.
Insiders said Pinda was attired as an ASI when he entered the jail. His arrest is expected to shed more light on the audacious attack.
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An accused in the murder of ASI Gurdev Singh, who was shot dead in Jalandhar in April 2013, Pinda was arrested by the Patiala police later that year along with his accomplice, Satnam Satti. He is a resident of Nihaluwal village in Jalandhar.
He faces four more cases — two in Jalandhar and one each in Kapurthala and Patiala. Shifted from the Patiala Central Jail to the maximum-security Nabha Jail earlier this year, he had escaped from police custody at the Patiala Civil Hospital in March this year when unidentified gunmen opened fire at the police escort party.
“Hence, he was well-aware of the jail barracks and the channels through which he could contact the inmates inside,” sources said. —TNS
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