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Thursday, Sep 09, 2004

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Wife of Punjab cop held in militant's escape case

By Our Staff Reporter

Kulwant Kaur (right) being produced at Tis Hazari courts in New Delhi on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 8. The wife of a Punjab police assistant sub-inspector (ASI), who allegedly helped a Khalistan Commando Force (KCF) militant escape from police custody from near Bara Hindu Rao Hospital in North Delhi on August 23, was arrested by the Special Cell on Tuesday. She was produced in a Tis Hazari court today which remanded her to nine-day police custody.

According to the police, Kulwant Kaur, wife of ASI Karam Singh, allegedly used to meet the KCF militant, Gursewak, at Nabha Jail on a regular basis. Investigations revealed that a couple of days before he was brought to the Capital for court appearance, Kulwant met him and gave him around Rs. 3,000 by selling her jewellery. It later came to light that before fleeing, Gursewak had made a telephone call to her from Delhi.

The police are now interrogating her to find Gursewak's whereabouts. Meanwhile, they are conducting raids at various places to track him down.

Earlier, the Special Cell had arrested Head Constable Raj Kumar, Constables Surender Singh, Bhupender Singh and Gurender Pal of the Punjab police, from whose custody Gursewak had escaped. The police personnel had allegedly conspired with him to let him flee.

Gursewak had been charged with sedition and carrying explosives in a case registered at Punjabi Bagh police station in West Delhi in 1998. The case had come up for hearing in the court of Additional Sessions Judge, Yogesh Khanna, at Tis Hazari and he was supposed to appear between August 23 and 26.

The four police personnel told the police that they were taking Gursewak to Bara Hindu Rao Hospital, as he complained of chest pain, when their vehicle broke down and they had to proceed on foot. On the way, Gursewak fled from the scene "taking advantage of the darkness."

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