Chandigarh, January 28
With the police remaining “clueless” about the fugitive terrorists Jagtar Singh Hawara and others since they escaped on January 22 from Burail Jail here, the Chandigarh Police today arrested four jail inmates for their suspected role in the escape.

The police today took Pakistani spy Abid Mehmood, Nand Singh, Subeg Singh and Sher Singh on a production remand till February 2 to find out what had been transpiring between Hawara and them at their frequent meetings. The police claims the meeting of Mehmood with Hawara had come on record.

With four more persons having been taken by the police on remand, the total number of the arrested in the case has gone up to 12.

Meanwhile, the Chandigarh Police today questioned a former militant Kanwarpal Singh Dhami for his suspected role in the escape of the three alleged assassins of late Chief Minister Beant Singh.

The police today called the former militant, who had been in Pakistan between 1984 and 1991, to the Crime Branch and quizzed him for several hours.

The police seized a computer of Dhami for finding out details of his financial transactions after he failed to provide a password. The computer was picked up from his residence in Mohali. The police claimed Dhami said his password was known to one of his computer operators who was on leave. The police said the computer would be released if the employee was able to crack the password. The police has again called a human rights lawyer Arunjeev Walia for seeking clarifications on his meetings with Hawara.

The team of experts consisting of civil and electrical engineers and Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) continued its search in the jail to look for more evidence about the conspiracy behind the escape of Hawara. The team has to determine if there was a tunnel before this one and how the present tunnel was dug and how the loose earth was disposed of.

The police claimed that Dhami had been getting gurdwara funds from the UK.

Dhami had remained in jail with Hawara and others for more than a year and later for around three years with other accused in the Beant Singh case, Gurmeet and Balwant, in the gurdwara barrack, the police claimed.

It also claimed at least five or six of those well known to Dhami had been meeting Hawara in the jail recently. However, nothing concrete about the conspiracy came out.

While the Chandigarh police claims to be showing moving fast on the conspiracy angle of the jailbreak, it seems without even a “lead” on the recapture of Hawara and others. The Punjab Police which is also on a trail of the dreaded terrorist said efforts till now had not given any results.