Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria today said that Anandpal Singh, who is wanted in several criminal cases, should surrender before police and there will be no threat to his life.
"Anandpal Singh will be kept safe in jail," Kataria said when asked about a letter by the criminal's counsel to High Court authorities stating that Singh wants to surrender but fears encounter.
Singh along with two others had escapedfrom police custody in September last year while they were being taken back to Ajmer prison from a court in Parbatsar in Nagaur.
Anand Pal Singh is the head of an infamous gang that is charged in multiple cases of robbery and extortion in Nagaur district of Rajasthan.
Singh is also charged in the infamous Didwana murder case where he and his accomplices had killed Jeevan Ram Godara at Didwana town of Nagaur district in 2006.
