Moga police on Sunday arrested Kultar Singh Goldi, an Australian NRI, who was wanted in the infamous Nabha jailbreak case.
He was accused by the police of harbouring gangster Gurpreet Singh Sekhon, alleged mastermind of November 2016 Nabha jailbreak.
While confirming this to The Tribune, SSP of Moga Gurpreet Singh Toor and SP (Investigation) Vazir Singh said that an FIR under Sections 130, 212, 216 and 216-A of the IPC was registered against him and his associate Gurwinder Singh alias Gori, resident of Dashmesh Nagar, Moga.
It may be mentioned that Gurpreet Sekhon and three of his associates, Manveer Sekhon, Rajwinder Raja and Kulwinder Singh, all wanted in Nabha jailbreak case were arrested by the counter intelligence wing of the state police on February 12 last year from Goldi’s residence at Dhudike village.
When the investigations of Nabha jailbreak case were in progress, the Punjab and Haryana High Court stayed the arrest of Kultar Singh Goldy on April 8, 2017, with a direction to him to appear before the police for investigations. But, he did not appear before the police.
His counsel Pratham Sethi had told court that Goldy was in Australia from July 10, 2009, though he visited India in between and last came on January 23, 2017, months after the jailbreak.
The court was also told that he was away from his house to Ludhiana the day when the escaped convicts were arrested from his house.
However, the local police claimed that it has seized four pistols and a gun along with cartridges from Sekhon and his associates from his residence.
The arms and ammunition were provided to them by a Moga gun seller Karanpal Singh, who was owner of Punjab Gun House in Moga. The gun house owner was also arrested by the local police.
Later, during the course of investigations it was established that Goldy knowingly provided shelter to the gangsters.
The legal proceedings to declare him a proclaimed offender were initiated by the cops. He was declared a proclaimed offender in December 2017 by a local court, here.
The SSP further said that Goldi will be produced before a local court on Monday for seeking a police remand for further investigations. Presently, he was being interrogated by senior police officials in the CIA-Staff at Mehna village.
It may be mentioned that Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh Mintoo, who recently died of cardiac arrest in jail, another militant Kashmir Singh and gangsters Vicky Gounder, Gurpreet Singh Sekhon, Neeta Deol and Amandeep Dhotian had escaped on the morning of November 27 in 2016.
The gangsters, three of them dressed as policemen, broke open the high security jail and freed the six inmates after indiscriminate firing.
