Chandigarh, June 12

The Punjab Police today arrested a Haryana-based man whose credentials and documents were used to hire a flat for hiding slain gangsters-turned-drug smugglers Jaipal Bhullar and Jaspreet Singh, alias Jassi, in Kolkata.

The arrested person has been identified as Sumit Kumar, a resident of Meham in Haryana.

The development came three days after Jaipal and Jaspreet were neutralised by the STF West Bengal Police after they fired on a police party when they raided their flat in Kolkata.

Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Counter Intelligence and Organised Crime Control Unit (OCCU), Amit Prasad said they had managed to nab Sumit, a close associate-cum-business partner of Bharat Kumar, who helped Jaipal and Jaspreet in escaping from Morena, Gwalior, and arranged a hideout for them in Kolkata, after they killed ASIs Bhagwan Singh and Dalwinderjit Singh of the Jagraon police at the grain market, Jagraon, on May 15. — TNS