Two student leaders have been arrested from here for allegedly harbouring gangsters, including the mastermind of the Nabha jailbreak, and helping them evade arrest, the police said.
The accused are working presidents of the Gandhi Group Students Union (GGSU), a group active in student politics of the Panjab University, they said.
They have been identified as Harman Virk Samana and Arman Cheema, the police said, adding that the passports of the gangsters, who are lodged in prisons in Punjab, have been seized from them.
During preliminary interrogation, they confessed to have supplied 'chitta' (drugs) to gangsters in the jail, the police claimed.
The police have registered a case in the matter and claimed that the Samana and Cheema also gave shelter to gangsters and ensured their escape after a crime.
Nabha jailbreak mastermind Neeta Deol, who is lodged at the Central Jail, Patiala, and others got help from these student leaders, they claimed.
The main accused in the jailbreak case, Vicky Gounder, is still to be arrested.
The student leaders were meeting the accused in the jail and were instrumental in ensuring things they need reach them, the police said.
The police claimed that these student leaders had revealed how they helped gangsters stay on university campuses in Chandigarh and Punjab, and at flats rented by them in various parts of the state.
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