Man Who Assaulted Cop With Spear During Republic Day Violence Arrested

Two persons, including a 21-year-old man who assaulted a policeman on duty at the Red Fort with a spear on January 26, has been arrested in connection with the violence at the historic monument, police said on Wednesday. With this, the total number of arrests made in connection with the case stands at 14, they said.

The police said that various teams of the Crime Branch Unit probing the case have been conducting regular raids at different places in Delhi and Punjab. Maninderjit Singh, 23, and Khempreet Singh, 21, who were actively involved in the violence, were arrested on Tuesday. According to police, Maninderjit Singh, a Dutch national, settled in Birmingham, UK, was arrested at the Delhi airport while trying to flee from India on forged travel documents as Jarmanjit Singh. He originally belongs to a village in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.

He was planning to fly first to Nepal from Delhi and then head to the UK. A look out circular was also issued by the police against him in connection with the case and he is also previously involved in two criminal cases, they said. The other accused, a resident of northwest Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar, who police said had assaulted a policeman on duty inside the well area of the Red Fort with a spear, was absconding and willfully evading his arrest.