Ramanjit Singh 'Romi', most wanted accused in Nabha jail break, to be extradited from Hong Kong

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 12

Ramanjit Singh alias Romi, one of the most wanted accused in Nabha jail break, would soon be extradited to India from Hong Kong.

A court in Hong Kong approved the Indian police’s allegations against Romi as substantial ground for his extradition, newspaper reports reaching Punjab Police officials revealed.

A Punjab police team will bring Romi from Hong Kong once the Indian government receives a formal intimation in this regard. Punjab police team led by AIG G S Chauhan had tracked him in Hong Kong.

Interpol had put him on global watch list at the behest of Indian security agencies.

Romi has been under Hong Kong police custody since 2018 on the basis of an Interpol red corner notice issued against him in 2017.

Ramanjit Romi is in Hong Kong police custody now.

The Indian government had demanded Singh’s surrender in two criminal cases in 2016 which, they said, was the equivalent of 28 serious offences in Hong Kong.

Sources say Romi’s interrogation is also needed in the context of his alleged links with some of the campaigners of ‘Referendum 2020’. Romi had fled India in 2016 after he managed to get bail in an Arms Act case by allegedly bribing an SHO.

Indian security agencies recently established a link between referendum campaigners, radicals in Germany, the UK and Canada, some gangsters operating in Punjab and the ISI by tracking online activities of the prime supporters of the separatist movement.

Romi was charged with a HK$32.6-million robbery in Hong Kong in February, but the prosecutors withdrew the charges recently, paving the way for his extradition to India.

The state police have prepared a 1,200-page dossier to ensure that they get Romi’s custody. Romi was allegedly the pointsman for coordination between state gangsters and terrorists. After gangsters Vicky Gounder and Prema Lahoria were killed in an encounter, the then Punjab DGP Suresh Arora had said Romi had helped Gounder procure an assault rifle and that he was the mastermind behind the Nabha jailbreak as he funded gangsters in Punjab.

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