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Patiala, October 31
In a major breakthrough, the Patiala police have arrested two student leaders for harbouring gangsters lodged in Punjab prisons and helping them evade arrest.
Police say the two are the working presidents of Gandhi Group Students Union (GGSU), a group active in the student politics of Panjab University, Chandigarh.
The two have been identified as Harman Virk Samana and Arman Cheema. The police have seized passports of gangsters from them. During interrogation they confessed to have supplied chitta (drugs) to gangsters in jail.
Sources in the police claimed that the two also gave shelter to gangsters and ensured their escape after a crime. Nabha jailbreak mastermind Neeta Deol and others got help from these student leaders, they claimed.
A case is likely to be registered here against the two. At present, the Nabha jailbreak mastermind and other accused are lodged in Central Jail, Patiala.
Sources say that due to the political patronage enjoyed by the student leaders the state police are under pressure to let them off lightly.
This is one of the most prominent arrests in the Nabha jailbreak case as the main accused Vicky Gounder is still to be arrested. The student leaders were allegedly meeting the accused lodged in jail and were instrumental in ensuring facilities to them in lieu of money.
Sources said these student leaders had revealed how they helped gangsters stay on university campuses in Chandigarh and Punjab and at flats rented by them in various parts of the state.
As for now, police deny any such arrests. However, sources confirmed that these leaders were arrested in the morning and recoveries had been made from them.
