amritsar police have nabbed dreaded absconding militant narain singh chaura who was wanted in various cases according to police reports a police party raided jalalabad village falling under verowal police station in tarn taran district and nabbed chaura on the evening of february 26 following chauras initial questioning raids were conducted in the area of kurali in sas nagar district on the intervening night of february 2627 in which one ak 56 rifle 20 rounds one 30 mauser 50 rounds and five hand grenades were recovered police have also arrested two of his accomplices sukhwant singh and sukhdev singh from jalalabad village and pandori respectively according to a police press release issued on wednesday chaura had been actively associated with militant activities in the state the early 1980s in 1984 he had crossed over to pakistan and was instrumental in smuggling huge consignments of weapons and explosives into punjab during the initial stages of militancy while in pakistan he authored a book on guerrilla war fare and other seditious literature he returned to india in 1986 went underground and later again crossed over to pakistan in 1989 he came back to operate in india under the assumed names of chamkaur singh and kapoor singh jamraudh he founded the akal federation and later the khalistan liberation army outfits in the recent past narain singh chaura had been actively attempting to revive militancy in punjab by coordinating the efforts of remanent terrorist groups in punjab and abroad he is involved in over two dozen terrorist activity cases he was instrumental in burail jail break case leading to the escape of jagtar singh hawara jagtar singh tara and paramjit singh bheora in this case he remained lodged in burail jail from where he was released on bail on 29042005 in december 2009 and january 2010 he procured huge quantities of arms and explosives from pakistan and distributed the same to terrorist modules in punjab part of this consignment was recovered with the recovery of an explosive laden maruti car at amritsar in may 2010 in the case sukhdev singh and gurwinder singh were arrested while chaura was absconding since then narain singh chaura had gone underground government had announced a reward of rs10 lakh for his arrest following chauras arrest the police department had promoted the officials who carried out this operation one sub inspector has been promoted to the rank of inspector 4 head constables to the rank of assistant sub inspector and 5 constables to the rank of head constable informed the release