NEW DELHI: The “Head” of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF), Malkiat Singh Ajnata will be produced in a court here by the Delhi Police along with a few other militants, in the first week of June for his alleged involvement in the abduction of Pashupati Acrylon Managing Director Mukesh Jain.

Ajnala, a low-profile militant currently in police custody in Punjab, had masterminded the abduction of Mukesh Jain last March, He, along with 81 militants, surrendered to the DGP, Punjab, KP.S.Gill, in Amritsar on May 5.

This was the second time Ajnala, an explosives expert, has surrendered, Earlier in 1988 during Operation Black Thunder, he had surrendered and was released on bail three years later.

However, since 1991 he had gone underground and came into con tact with another KLF member, Gurmail Singh Kanoka who persuaded him to rejoin the group. Both fled to Patna, the place were Jain was kept hostage for 11 days, ‘and from there started guiding militant activities in Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

In Delhi, Ajnala is claimed to have had a number of hideouts.

It is believed that Gurmail Singh was one of the two men who ab ducted Jain from his Friends Colony (West) house after killing his guard, Prem Singh Rawat.

In fact, the Punjab Police distorted Ajnala’s involvement in many subversive activities only three months ago in Ludhiana,

During his interrogation by the Punjab Police, he admitted his involvement in the abduction of Jain.

A police party was sent by the South Delhi district last week and it has come back with substantial evidence of Ajnala and his associates involvement.

The South district police have confirmed this and are seeking his production warrant from Punjab Police along with a few other militants,

It may be recalled that Jain was abducted outside his A25 Friends Colony (West) by two armed men, who shot the former’s guard and fled in a white Maruti van,

A few hours after the incident, the Jain family received a Rs1 crore ransom demand.

Earlier the South district police was suspecting the involvement of UP gang lords like Mahinder Singh Fauji.

The faxed messages for ransom which the abductors sent to the Jain family from London made the Delhi Police realize that the Punjab militants were behind this abduction.

“No other group has links in London except for Punjab militants, said a senior police official,

The clinching evidence against the militants which confirmed their involvement is the option given to the Jain family to pay the ransom amount in London, (Jain’sinlaws who are settled in London were also contacted by the militants and coaxed to cough up the ransom money).

However, their plans went awry when two of the executors of the kidnapping, Gurmail Singh and Gurmeet Singh, were caught by the Punjab police in Jalandhar in March.

Though the two consumed cyanide and did not reveal anything, their associates in Patna, who were standing guard on Jain got scared and apparently abandoned their hostage.

 

“They feared that after the arrest of Gurmail and Gurmeet, the police will be able to trace their hideout and them too,” said a senior police official.

Article extracted from this publication >>  June 4, 1993