A military deserter, who recently escaped from a hospital in Hoshiarpur, was arrested from Delhi on Friday morning, police said. Harpreet Singh (25), who had been booked for stealing rifles and ammunition from an army institute in Madhya Pradesh, was arrested from Connaught Place in Delhi at around 9am. “Harpreet has been arrested from Delhi by our team,” Hoshiarpur SSP Gaurav Garg said, adding that the accused had planned to escape to Nepal. On January 14, Singh had tricked police guards by making an excuse of going to the washroom and escaped from a civil hospital in Hoshiarpur by scaling its wall. He had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for a hand injury since December 31.
Singh, who was a sepoy in the Indian Army, is facing charges for stealing two INSAS rifles and ammunition from the army’s training institute in Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh, they said. He was arrested from Chotala village near Tanda in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district in December after being declared a military deserter in October last year.
(With inputs from PTI)