Escaped murder undertrial held

JALANDHAR, Dec 20:: Gurpartap Singh Sodhi, a murder undertrial who had escaped from the police custody in the local civil hospital last week, was arrested last night while trying to flee after snatching a car from a Hoshairpur resident.

Hoshairpur Senior Superinttendent of Police R. P. Mittal today said when Dr Sandeep Kumar Kharbanda informed the police that a youth had snatched his Maruti car at dagger point from near Roshan ground in Hoshairpur. The police thus sounded an alert.

He said that when the ASI Jaswinder Pal intercepted the Maruti PB-07E-9292 last night, its lone occupant turned out to be Gurpartap Singh Sodhi, who had been charged by Jalandhar city police with the murder of Rakesh Kumar of Gobindgarh Mohalla here.