Delhi Police arrest Red Fort case accused trying to flee India
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Ghazipur (Ghaziabad), March 10
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Delhi Police have made two more arrests in the Red Fort violence case.
Maninderjit Singh, said to be a Dutch national settled in Birmingham, was nabbed from the Indira Gandhi International Airport while trying to flee the country.
Khempreet Singh, 21, was arrested on Tuesday.
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Maninderjit, 33, posing as Jarmanjit Singh from Gurdaspur was trying to take a flight to Nepal from where he was to fly back to the United Kingdom.
Maninderjit, who, according to the police, came to India in Decemeber 2019 but couldn’t return due to the lockdown measures, was seen with a spear at the Red Fort on January 26.
The accused has since been remanded to four-day police custody.
Khempreet and his associates were present at the Red Fort and he allegedly assaulted a policeman with his spear.
He was caught after a raid at his relative’s house at Khayala.
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