Mastermind of Nabha jailbreak, 3 gangsters nabbed in Punjab

Four gangsters, including the "mastermind" of last year's Nabha jailbreak, were on Sunday nabbed from a house in Dhudike village of Moga district in Punjab, police said.

"Gurpreet Singh Sekhon, who had escaped from Nabha jail last year, and three gangsters have been arrested," Punjab Police, AIG (Counter Intelligence) Gurmit

Singh Chauhan said on Sunday.

The three others who have been arrested are Manvir Sekhon, cousin of Gurpreet, Rajwinder Singh and Kulwinder Singh from the house of an NRI, the officer said.

Acting on a tip-off, 25 policemen, including 10 members of police's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, nabbed the gangsters, Chauhan said. "Our operation

was so precise that we did not give the gangsters time to retaliate or draw their weapons," he said, adding four weapons and two cars were seized from them.

With the nabbing of Gurpreet, so far three of the six Nabha jail escapees have been apprehended. Earlier, Khalistan Liberation Force Chief Harminder Singh Mintoo was nabbed from Nizamuddin railway station in Delhi and Neeta Deol from Indore in Madhya Pradesh. On November 27, Mintoo, Kashmir Singh, and gangsters Amandeep Dhothian, Vicky Gounder, Gurpreet Sekhon and Neeta Deol had escaped from Nabha jail.