7 years on, proclaimed offender in Chandigarh police net

Chandigarh, November 11

The UT police have arrested a proclaimed offender (PO), who was on the run for seven years.

The PO, Amit Sareen (43), a resident of Jalandhar, was nabbed by a team of the operations cell. The police said a case under Sections 406 and 498-A of the IPC was registered against Sareen at the Sector 11 police station in May 2012.

He was declared a PO by the court in October 2013.

Sareen had applied for anticipatory bail four times, which was rejected by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The police got information that Sareen was in Jalandhar following which he was nabbed on November 10. — TNS