Chandigarh/Chennai: The Punjab Police yesterday arrested a top Khalistani terrorist, Ramndeep Singh alias Goldy, from Chennai airport, a senior police officer said.
Ramndeep Singh belongs to the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF).
As part of efforts to track down wanted terrorists abroad, Ramandeep Singh was traced to Thailand where he shifted from Nepal, Punjab Police Inspector General Gaurav Yadav said here.
“He was further tracked down in Malaysia and, in coordination with central agencies and Malaysian authorities, brought to Chennai early today and put under arrest at the airport,” Yadav said in Chandigarh.
Yadav said the Malaysian authorities deported Ramandeep and he was arrested on arrival at Chennai airport.
“The matter was taken up with the Nepalese authorities for cancellation of his fake Nepalese passport, which has been revoked. He was interdicted by the Punjab Police, central agencies and the Malaysian authorities and deported to India,” Yadav said.
The Punjab Police had sent Deputy Superintendents of Police Rajinder Singh Sohal and Tejinderjit Singh Virk to Malaysia for coordinating the mechanism of brining back Ramandeep.
“The two officers brought back fugitive terrorist Ramandeep Singh to Chennai airport by Air India flight 621. The police party along with Ramandeep travelled (Thursday) by air from Chennai to New Delhi and by road from New Delhi to Patiala,” Yadav said.
A separate two-member police party of the counter intelligence unit camped in Thailand for three weeks in September-October this year but Ramandeep escaped to Malaysia.
Ramandeep Singh is the second major Khalistani terrorist to be arrested by Punjab Police in recent weeks.
Rattandeep Singh, chief of the Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan and a former associate of terrorists Paramjit Singh Panjwar and Wadhawa Singh, was caught in Gorakhpur in
Uttar Pradesh.
Nabbed by the Punjab State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) September 17, Rattandeep was based in Pakistan since 1993 and was wanted in a number of cases of bomb blasts.
Ramandeep, who belongs to Bassi Pathana in Ropar district, came into contact with Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Darshan Singh who introduced him to the Britain-based terrorist Paramjit Singh, a police officer said.
A terrorist conspiracy to assassinate Rulda Singh, head of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat organisation, was hatched in Britain by Paramjit Singh and executed by Ramandeep.
Two Bratain-based men, Gursharan Singh and Piara Singh, were also involved in the conspiracy. IANS
