Absconding Dera member arrested

Dera Sacha Sauda member Sandeep Bareta, one of the main conspirators in the 2015 Bargari sacrilege cases who had been on the run for eight years, was arrested at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport last week by immigration officials as he was about to board a flight to Shanghai via Singapore. Bengaluru police later handed over his custody to cops from Punjab Police’s SIT. A member of Dera’s national committee, Bareta, along with Harsh Dhuri and Pardeep Kaler, was wanted by Punjab Police in three cases of sacrilege registered in 2015 at Bajakhana police station in Faridkot district. The three men were declared proclaimed offenders a long while back.