Key Takeaways
- Mangat Singh alias Manga, a KCF terrorist, was arrested by Uttar Pradesh ATS after 30 years on the run.
- The arrest was made possible through a joint operation between Uttar Pradesh ATS and Sahibabad police.
- Mangat Singh alias Manga is a resident of Timmbodal in Majhita district, Punjab, and was living in Viveka Nagar, Ghaziabad, at the time of his arrest.
Lucknow: A terrorist of banned terrorist organisation Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), who was on the run for almost 30 years, has been arrested by a joint police team of Noida unit of Uttar Pradesh Anti Terror Squad (ATS) and Sahibabad police under Ghaziabad Commissionerate, an official spokesman said here on Thursday.
The Noida unit of ATS received information that Mangat Singh alias Manga, a resident of Timmbodal in Majhita district, Punjab, was an active member of the banned organisation KCF. He was living in Viveka Nagar, Ghaziabad, at the time of his arrest.
“An FIR for attempted murder and TADA was registered against him in Sahibabad police station. He was arrested on March 11, 1993 and sent to jail. Manga was absconding for almost 30 years after getting bail on August 16, 1995,” he said.
He said that the accused Manga’s brother Sagat Singh, who was the chief of the KCF, was killed in an encounter in district Vyas by Punjab Police in 1990. “Accused Manga Singh is a criminal against whom cases are registered in Sahibabad. The accused is continuously absconding in these cases and has been avoiding the process of the court,” he said.
The spokesman said that in a case the court of Additional Civil Judge (Junior Division) Ghaziabad had issued a permanent arrest warrant against the accused on December 12, 2024 and an arrest warrant was also issued on April 8, 2025.
“The accused was continuously absconding in the case. A reward of Rs 25,000 was also announced on him by the Ghaziabad police,” he said.
He said when the intelligence was developed by the Noida Unit ATS through various means, it was found that the accused Manga was residing in village Timmowal under Khilchian police station in Amritsar, Punjab. “Manga was arrested on Wednesday by the joint team of ATS and Sahibabad police,” he said.
