EXCLUSIVE: Peel police take custody of third suspect in Mississauga beating of autistic man

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MISSISSAUGA — Call that a Peel Police hat trick!

When Peel detectives went to the public for help with a shocking surveillance video March 13 of three men laying a horrible beating on a 29-year-old autistic man, they vowed to catch the trio.

They made good on that promise Wednesday night.

Detectives touched down at Pearson International Airport with Jaspaul Uppal — in handcuffs — just six days after they had issued a Canada wide warrant for his arrest. Turns out their hunch he was not in the GTA was correct, because Uppal turned himself into police in Abbotsford early this week.

Peel sent two officers out to get him to face Ontario justice. In shackles, he flew home on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver and was brought back to 12 Division. People on the plane told the Sun he was placid and securely restrained.

But he was not happy to see us as he was escorted off the plane and into a waiting Peel squad car.

He didn’t offer any quotes, instead opting for the cowardly covering-up-his-face approach, just as his alleged tough guy accomplices did when they were brought into the station to be processed.

Uppal is slated to make his first appearance in Brampton court Thursday at 9 a.m. to face charges of aggravated assault. His two co-accused have already been caught and made court appearances for the same charge.

Parmvir Singh Chahil, 25, was arrested in Windsor in March 22 and had subsequently been granted bail. Ronjot Singh Dhami, 25, turned himself in at a Brampton police station March 26th and remains in custody as he attempts to sort out bail.

None of the charges have been tested in court, but Peel Police are sure happy to have all three before the system because if you recall when they first put out the video they had nothing.

And even when the video was broadcast all over the GTA, it still didn’t garner many tips.

Calling it a “vicious and brutal attack” Inspector Norm English and Det. John Farquharson knew right away what it must have meant. They were not from the GTA. So they put their net out wider — from coast to coast — and got a hit.

Media in Vancouver started playing the video, showing a man being punched and kicked while taking off his roller skates at the bottom of some stairs, on their local newscasts. People were recognizing the men in the video. Canada wide warrants were eventually issued for all three. And they started to investigate and run down leads.

“Our team of officers worked tirelessly on this investigation to locate and apprehend all three individuals on this senseless and vicious attack on the victim,” said Farquharson, who thanks police in British Columbia for their help and Windsor too.

As Farquharson said last week: “We never give up.”

Turns out it’s not only a Peel Police motto but as Chahil, Dhami and now Uppal have found out, it’s also true.

The manhunt is over and Peel scored three big arrests in this case that stunned the nation.