Canadian regulation enforcement has arrested an Indo-Canadian, thought-about among the many nation’s high 25 most needed fugitives, the Surrey detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday.

Amarjit Singh Rai was arrested from a residence within the city within the Metro Vancouver area of the province of British Columbia. He was needed in relation to 17 costs stemming from an investigation that started in August 2019.

The Surrey RCMP mentioned that by investigation, they have been in a position to verify he was inside a residence and “was taken into police custody without incident”.

He was transported to Surrey RCMP cells and can stay in custody awaiting his subsequent court docket look.

Rai had earlier been arrested in April 2021 by Surrey RCMP Strike Force Target Team (SFTT) for an impressive warrant pertaining to the August 2019 investigation. He was launched by the courts on May 7, 2021 with situations.

A launch in January final 12 months said that it was “alleged that Amardip Singh Rai failed to appear for a subsequent court date and therefore a warrant was issued for his arrest”.

He confronted a number of costs together with these associated to sexual assault, confining an individual with out lawful authority, two counts of assault with a weapon, three counts of possession of a managed substance and 9 firearms costs.

While looking for the general public’s help in finding him, Rai was described as a 42-year-old male, 5’11, slim constructed with brown eyes, black hair and sometimes sporting facial hair. He has a number of tattoos together with that of a tiger on his chest. However, members of the general public have been additionally cautioned to not strategy him and to name police instantly.

Rai was featured on the Canada-wide Bolo Program’s Top 25 Wanted throughout the nation. The programme launches amplification campaigns to hunt the general public’s cooperation to find fugitives.