Know the Nabha prison escapees

Archit Watts

Tribune News Service

Muktsar, November 27

Six prisoners, among them two militants, broke out of a high-security prison in Nabha on Sunday morning. From KLF chief to a murder suspect gangster, here's a background of those who escaped: 

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Harminder Singh ‘Mintoo’

Punjab Police arrested Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh 'Mintoo' and his key aide Gurpreet Singh alias Gopi at the New Delhi airport with central agencies’ assistance in November 2014. He was suspected of being involved in 10 cases of militancy at the time of his arrest.  (Read full report here: Punjab Police arrest KLF chief, aide)

Harjinder Singh Bhullar alias Vicky Gounder

Originally from Sarawan Bodla village in Lambi assembly segment, Gounder is the prime suspect in the murder of gangster Sukha Kahlwan and was arrested in December 2015. He was moved to Nabha jail after a clash with a rival gang in Ropar jail.

Gounder is suspected of having been involved in another murder case by Jalandhar Commissionerate in 2010. His gang — gangster Gurshahid Singh alias Shera Khubban’s group — is primarily involved in highway robberies and murders.

Gurshahid Singh was killed in a police encounter in Bathinda in 2012.

Gurpreet Singh Sekhon alias Sonu Mudki

Sekhon belongs to a family of brick-kiln owners from Mudki village. Gupreet is suspected of having been an accomplice in a murder during the 2012 assembly elections, although gangster Shera Khubban was the prime suspect in the case. At the time of his arrest on March 4, 2015, Sekhon faced 13 criminal cases in Ferozepur, Faridkot, Moga, Bathinda and Chandigarh. (Read full report here: Key accused in gangster Sukha’s murder case held)

Kulpreet Singh alias Neeta Deol

Neeta, a Dubai-based NRI, runs a transport business. He is son of a former deputy director of animal husbandry Department and is originally from Moga district. He is the prime suspect in the murder of Sukha Kahlwan and was arrested from Sri Guru Ram Dass Ji International Airport, Amritsar, on April 22, 2015. At the time of his arrest, he was sought for six criminal cases. 

Amandeep Dhotian

A resident of Tarn Taran’s Dhotian village, Amandeep Dhotian (27) heads the Dhotian gang in Majha region. Amritsar’s Crime Investigation Agency had arrested him and six other members of his gang on November 5, 2015. He is suspected to have been involved in a number of incidents of loot and vehicle thefts.

Kashmir Singh: Had attacked Shiv Sena leader

Kashmir Singh was arrested and booked for attempt to murder after he had shot at Punjab Shiv Sena leader Harvinder Soni with a countrymade .315-bore pistol in Gurdaspur on April 12 last year. His two accomplices were also arrested.

Kashmir hails from Galwandi village, under Khanna police district. The police had claimed that Kashmir Singh had developed contacts with terrorist sleeper cells and had attacked Soni at the behest of a certain militant Sikh organisation. (Inputs by Ravi Dhaliwal in Gurdaspur)

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