PATIALA: Indian authorities seeking extradition of key conspirator in the Nabha jailbreak case, Ramanjit Singh Romi, have informed the Eastern Court of Hong Kong that he had sent Rs 7,83,000 to gangsters in Punjab between September 5 and November 16, 2016, for executing the jailbreak. Another sum of Rs 1,40,726 for hideouts, food, clothes and other daily needs of the absconders was sent between March 12 and May 19 in 2017.
Claiming that Romi had funded the prison break and paid for the day-to-day expense of the fugitives, the Indian authorities have told the Hong Kong court that while he was not present when gangsters dressed in police uniforms stormed the maximum security jail and freed six inmates on November 27, 2018, he was the one who had planned it in July 2016, when he was also lodged inside the same jail with the gangsters. It was there that he had plotted to flee to Hong Kong and funded the jailbreak from there.
Romi had also set up a ‘control room’ in Hong Kong from where he was coordinated the movement of the jail escapees using internet telephone making it difficult for the security agencies to track their movement.
The court has been told that Romi sent the said amount to the gangsters who attacked the jail on November 27, in four instalments between September 5 and November 16, 2016, and sent Rs 1,40,726, between March 12 and May 19 in 2017 to provide for the escapees while they were on the run.
While hearing the petition filed Romi, a permanent resident of Hong Kong, challenging his extradition back to India, the court also heard how he played a key role in the entire incident.
Romi was arrested by the Patiala police on June 2016 on charges of credit card fraud and was sent to the maximum security jail at Nabha where he hatched the jailbreak in connivance with now slain gangster Vicky Gounder, Neeta Deol, Aman Dhottian and Gurpreet Sekhon. The three were later arrested. The escapees included two militants Harminder Singh Mintoo and Baba Kashmir Singh, who were to spread terrorist activities in Punjab.
Romi was granted bail in July after, which he managed to get his passport that was in police custody, and fled to Hong Kong.
Later, Romi was booked by the the Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU) of the state government for funding the jailbreak and trying to set up an arms base in Patiala.
Earlier, the court had barred him from taking the ‘torture plea’ while challenging his extradition to India. The court has now asked the Indian authorities to place on record the evidence of his involvement in the crime in support of his extradition request.
Claiming that Romi had funded the prison break and paid for the day-to-day expense of the fugitives, the Indian authorities have told the Hong Kong court that while he was not present when gangsters dressed in police uniforms stormed the maximum security jail and freed six inmates on November 27, 2018, he was the one who had planned it in July 2016, when he was also lodged inside the same jail with the gangsters. It was there that he had plotted to flee to Hong Kong and funded the jailbreak from there.
Romi had also set up a ‘control room’ in Hong Kong from where he was coordinated the movement of the jail escapees using internet telephone making it difficult for the security agencies to track their movement.
The court has been told that Romi sent the said amount to the gangsters who attacked the jail on November 27, in four instalments between September 5 and November 16, 2016, and sent Rs 1,40,726, between March 12 and May 19 in 2017 to provide for the escapees while they were on the run.
While hearing the petition filed Romi, a permanent resident of Hong Kong, challenging his extradition back to India, the court also heard how he played a key role in the entire incident.
Romi was arrested by the Patiala police on June 2016 on charges of credit card fraud and was sent to the maximum security jail at Nabha where he hatched the jailbreak in connivance with now slain gangster Vicky Gounder, Neeta Deol, Aman Dhottian and Gurpreet Sekhon. The three were later arrested. The escapees included two militants Harminder Singh Mintoo and Baba Kashmir Singh, who were to spread terrorist activities in Punjab.
Romi was granted bail in July after, which he managed to get his passport that was in police custody, and fled to Hong Kong.
Later, Romi was booked by the the Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU) of the state government for funding the jailbreak and trying to set up an arms base in Patiala.
Earlier, the court had barred him from taking the ‘torture plea’ while challenging his extradition to India. The court has now asked the Indian authorities to place on record the evidence of his involvement in the crime in support of his extradition request.
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