Summary Search is underway to arrest the other four people.
NEW DELHI (Dunya News / AFP) - Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) chief Harminder Singh Mintoo was arrested from New Delhi on Sunday after he managed to escape from Nabha prison in Punjab’s Patiala district a day before.
He was arrested on the outskirts of Delhi some 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the high-security prison in Punjab where he had been remanded on terror charges.
"He was caught near Delhi early Monday and will be brought to Punjab," A S Chahal, a senior local police official, told AFP.
Besides Mintoo, the escaped inmates include Gurpreet Singh, Vicky Gondra, Natan Deol and Vikram Jeet Singh.
Four other inmates who also escaped during the breakout -- members of a local criminal gang jailed for murder -- are still at large, Chahal added.
Mintoo was arrested in 2014 and was in jail awaiting trial for terrorism offences.
He was freed in an early morning raid on Sunday by at least 10 armed men wearing police uniforms. They stabbed one guard and opened fire before fleeing with the prisoners in cars.
Three policemen were injured in the assault, which prompted a massive hunt for the fugitives.
A woman was killed on a highway a few miles from the prison when police opened fire on her car after the driver allegedly failed to stop at a checkpoint.
Police later said she had no connection with the escapees.
A 2.5 million rupee ($36,000) reward was offered for information on Mintoo’s whereabouts. It was not clear if the bounty had played any part in his recapture Monday.
In the aftermath of the jailbreak, Punjab government sacked two senior prison officials, Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent, suspended ADGP (Jails) and formed an SIT to probe the jail break.
It ordered a separate inquiry committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Jagpal Singh Sandhu to look into the "security lapses".
Sunday’s raid was the second major prison break in India in less than a month.
In October eight prisoners escaped from a jail in central Madhya Pradesh state. They were gunned down hours later in a shootout.
The Sikh freedom movement in Punjab largely waned in the late 90s, but several groups remain committed to the Khalistan movement and dozens of Sikhs are in prison.
The bloody campaign -- launched in the 1970s -- claimed more than 20,000 lives, mostly civilian.
