CHANDIGARH: The local police March 20 claimed to have arrested Nirvair Singh, a listed militant of the Babbar Khalsa International outfit, from near Maloya village in the Union Territory. A spokesman said the police had received secret information that the Inelegant would come to Chandigarh on March 20 from Teera village. A check post was put up near Maloya village on the Kateha path from where he was to enter the city. The spokesman claimed that around 2 p.m. a Sikh youth, who was later identified as Jirvair Singh, was spotted coming on a scooter by the police. When the naka party signaled him to stop, he attempted to slipway. He was, however, overpowered after a chase, the police also frustrated his attempt to consume cyanide which he carried with him, and the police claimed that they seized from his possession an AK47 along with a loaded magazine.
Nirvair Singh is deputy chief of the Babbar Khalsa’s Chandigarh unit and had been operating in the area comprising Ropar, Patiala and Ambala besides the Union Territory. He carried a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head from the Punjab Government and Rs 30,000 from the Haryana government. The spokesman said Nirvair Singh was involved in the killing of M.L.Verma, Deputy Principal Secretary to the Haryana Chief Minister. He had also allegedly attacked a police post of Maloya in which one Home Guards volunteer was killed and two police officials were injured. Other incidents in which Nirvair Singh was allegedly involved were an attack with rocket launchers of three constables of Ropar police, killing of Bhupinder Singh Longia of the A.LS.S.F., murder of the sarpanches of Surtapur and Samrala villages in Ropar district, killing of three persons at Falehgarh Sahib, planting of explosives at the railway track near Rangia village in Ropar district, and breaching of Bhakra Canal (Main line) near Ghanauli village in Ropar district.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 26, 1993
