Anil Arora arrested from Panchkula for 'making derogatory remarks' against Guru Nanak

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 9

After playing hide and seek with the police for over 50 days, finally Anil Arora, who had made derogatory remarks against Guru Nanak Dev, has been apprehended by the Ludhiana police from Panchkula on Thursday. He had recently shifted from Vrindavan to a hotel in Panchkula.

Arora was nabbed after a chase of hundreds of kilometres in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. For evading arrest, Arora remained hided in Delhi, Mathura, Haryana and various parts of Punjab.

Arora had made derogatory remarks against Guru Nanak Dev and his father. A case was registered against Arora under Sections 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) of the Indian Penal Code at the Division Number 3 police station on October 20.

A team, led by Crime Branch-III in-charge Beant Juneja, nabbed Arora from a hotel, where he had been hiding from the past few days.

Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said police teams had already launched a hunt to nab the accused and today after getting tip-off, a team, led by Inspector Beant Juneja, managed to arrest the accused.

The Ludhiana police had already nabbed eight accomplices of Arora, including Vasu Syal of Zira, who had initiated the talk in the audio chat, and now the prime accused Arora was also nabbed, CP Bhullar said, adding that Ashish, who is said to be living in the UK, was also part of the crime and the police have initiated the proceedings to get the accused extradited to India.

“Now the police will produce the accused in court to seek his police remand for further investigation. All scientific evidences the police is having will be corroborated and a well-prepared challan will be presented in the court so that the accused face harsher punishment in minimum possible time,” added CP Bhullar.

Bhullar said the Commissionerate Police would give commendation certificates to the team members of the CIA staff for nabbing Arora.

When this incident came to fore, several Sikh outfits had held protests in the city for demanding arrest of the accused.

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