Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested Punjabiactor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu who was an wanted in the January 26 Red Fortviolence case. Sidhu was absconding ever since as the police searched for himin various places in Punjab and Haryana and even declared a reward of Rs 1 lakhon him.
"We have arrested the wanted-accused Deep Sidhu," said Sanjeev KumarYadav, DCP Special Cell. The Delhi Police had announced the cash reward of Rs 1lakh each for information on Deep Sidhu, Jugraj Singh, Gurjot Singh and GurjantSingh; and Rs 50,000 each on Jajbir Singh, Buta Singh, Sukhdev Singh and IqbalSingh for their alleged involvement in the Republic Day violence that saw atleast one person die and several injured, including policemen.
Police would now probe where he got shelter since January 26 and who allprovided it. Those who provided shelter to him could also face legal action.
Another co-accused Sukhdev Singh was earlier arrested from Chandigarh. Sidhu onJanuary 31 uploaded a video on his verified Facebook account. In the 15minute-long video message, titled 'straight from my soul', he was seen givingan emotional statement in Punjabi, which loosely translates to: "I ambeing defamed... I had left my whole life behind, and come here to join the Punjabisin their protest. But now I am being labelled a traitor."
"All I did was raise a voice for your rights. For so many months, I havebeen meeting everyone on roads, in tents. Now a single man is being made atraitor," he said addressing the hundreds of farmers, who have beensitting in protests at Delhi's borders since November 26 against the threecontentious farm laws. Within two hoursof uploading, it was viewed 19,000 times and received 11,000 comments.