INDORE: Ten Sikhs including two women belonging to a group which had allegedly tried to kidnap the family members of fed real home minister S B Chavan at Nanded in Maharashwa on July 19 last were arrested here PTI reports. The police said that this followed information provided by one Nirmal Singh a resident of Malegaon in Maharashtra who escaped from the captivity of four of the arrested militants who had abducted him on July 27 last. Madhya Pradesh chief minister Sunder Lal Patwa told a press conference here Monday evening that four among the arrested militants—Madho _— Singh Amarjeet Singh Saranjeet Kaur and Paramjeet Kaur—belonged to the outlawed “Babbar Khalsa group.
The name of the other militants is Baldev Singh Sada Singh Darshan Singh Kewal Singh and Harjeet Singh he said.
One of the ten Madho Singh was carrying a reward of Rs one million on his head. Patwa said Madhav Singh had confessed to the police about the crime.
The militants were arrested from different localities in the city he said adding that they had kidnapped a relative of the BSF DIG at Amritsar M S$ Sandhu from Malegaon for allegedly taking his help in arranging a jail-break for freeing a hard-core militant Lakha Singh in Punjab.
Police officials from Maharashtra had come for Indore and those from Madhya Pradesh had gone to Chandigarh for further investigations the chief minister added.
Police seized one AK-47 rifle two imported revolvers four country-made pistols and five hundred detonators from the militants Patwa said.
Meanwhile to a report from Nanded said the chief priest of Man mad Gurudwara Ajayab Singh was arrested on Saturday last for allegedly abducting Nirmal Singh.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 9, 1991
