NRI Detained at Delhi Airport; handed over to Punjab Police
Gurmeet Singh, an NRI wanted for deserting his wife, was detained at the Delhi airport on Monday. He was about to take a flight to Germany. Gurmeet Singh was trying to leave India even as his passport stood suspended. The Delhi airport authorities immediately alerted the cops after which he was handed over to the Patiala police. Pritpal Kaur, his wife from Samana said she got married to Gurmeet Singh, a chef in Germany, in January 2011. “After about a month, he left for Germany and then kept on visiting India on and off. I conceived meanwhile and was blessed with a son in 2012. And then I discovered that he was already married in Germany to a white woman and was having kids from that wedlock,” Pritpal said. “I was ousted of my in-laws house and what followed was physical abuse and emotional torture in the name of compromise. He dodged the police and he left for Germany in 2015 never to call up again.” Pritpal recently got to know that Gurmeet has entered India through Nepal and subsequently a look-out circular was issued against him. Deputy Passport Officer Amit Kumar Rawat said, “Since the information regarding suspended passports reflects everywhere, Gurmeet’s attempt to flee was foiled at the Delhi airport. He has been arrested by Patiala police since a criminal case is pending against him,” said Rawat. The RPO here had started this spree of suspending passports of these runaway husbands in June 2018 and have now even started suspension of passports of complainants’ in-laws booked under criminal charges. There are nearly 12,000 such cases pending for action under the RPO Chandigarh, which has jurisdiction over 24 districts in Punjab and Haryana, besides Chandigarh. -PTC News
