The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday confirmed that the information regarding the arrest of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh's assassin Jagtar Singh Tara in Thailand was correct and said that this issue would be pursued to its logical conclusion.
"The information is correct. We have been in touch with the Thai authorities through our embassy in Bangkok. I can assure you that we will pursue this to its logical conclusion. Given the delicacy of this matter, I do not want to say anything else. The investigation is underway," said MEA official spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin.
According to reports, the Thai authorities, acting on a tip-off from the Punjab Police, arrested Tara from the house of a member of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
Tara is accused of planning the suicide attack on Beant Singh in 1995 in Chandigarh, an act of terror that resulted in the death of 18 people.
The Khalistan Tiger Force commander and his accomplices Paramjit Singh Bheora, Jagtar Singh Hawara and Dev Singh were arrested after the incident but escaped from the high security Burail Jail in Chandigarh.
According to reports, Tara was living in Thailand under a Pakistani passport.
