The close associate of slain gangsters Vicky Gounder and Prema Lahoria had facilitated the Nabha jailbreak by providing funds and later helping the escaped inmates coordinate their movements by individually staying in touch with them through internet telephony. Romi along with his flatmate Dilpreet Singh, 24, was acquitted by the court and one Gursewak Singh was found guilty of handling the stolen items worth HK$3 million. The quantum of the sentence will be pronounced on September 18. The next hearing in the extradition case is on September 13.The Indian authorities served a provisional warrant for Romi’s arrest in June and made a formal request for his surrender on August 22.On June 26, the HK prosecution had dropped charges against Romi in the 450 million Japanese yen ($4.04 million) heist. PATIALA: Ramanjit Singh Romi, the key conspirator in the 2016 Nabha jailbreak who had also been named in the targeted killings case, was on Thursday acquitted by a Hong Kong court of the charges of handling stolen goods worth HK$3 million.Twenty-nine-year-old Romi, however, continues to be in the custody of the Hong Kong police as India has requested his extradition in connection with the Nabha jailbreak, funding of terror modules, credit card fraud and setting up an arms base in Patiala to spread terrorlike activities.
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