Chandigarh: In a significant breakthrough, fugitive Khalistani preacher Amritpal Singh’s shut aide Papalpreet Singh was arrested from Punjab’s Hoshiarpur on Monday. Papalpreet was arrested in a joint operation by the Punjab and Delhi Police that additionally concerned their counter-intelligence wings. Papalpreet is taken into account to be Amritpal’s mentor and is alleged to have hyperlinks with Pakistan’s ISI. Amritpal and Papalpreet had been on the run since March 18 when the Punjab Police launched a crackdown in opposition to the Khalistan sympathiser and his aides.
Pro-Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh’s aide Papalpreet Singh arrested from Hoshiarpur in an operation performed by Punjab Police and its counter-intelligence unit: Sources pic.twitter.com/viDBYofrNd
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Who Is Papalpreet Singh?
Papalpreet Singh comes from agricultural household background. He is claimed to have studied at a convent faculty and holds a PG diploma. Papalpreet Singh took to political activism in his 20s and received related to Sikh Youth Front and Sikh Youth Federation (Bhindrawala). Apart from expressing his assist for the Khalistan motion, Papalpreet had demanded the discharge of jailed Sikh prisoners for the reason that 90s.
He got here to the limelight through the 2015 Sarbat Khalsa when he learn out militant Narain Singh Chaura’s ‘chargesheet’ in opposition to the then Parkash Singh Badal authorities and claimed that “Khalistan is the only solution.” In 2016, he joined Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) and campaigned for Simranjit Singh Mann in Barnala within the 2017 Assembly elections. However, Mann misplaced the battle.
Papalpreet Singh is taken into account to be considered one of Amritpal Singh’s mentors who had been advising him on varied points. He is related to the fugitive preacher carefully since he returned to India final yr and took over the reins of ‘Waris Punjab De.’
Intelligence reviews counsel that Papalpreet has hyperlinks with ISI and makes use of its assist to leverage the reason for Khalistan in Punjab. He is believed to have helped Amritpal Singh escape after the Punjab Police crackdown on his supporters. In a video, Papalpreet was seen driving a motorbike with the previous using pillion. The two-wheeler was later discovered abandoned at Phillaur in Jalandhar, in accordance with a PTI report.
It was on Papalpreet’s directions that Amritpal modified his look from a radical Sikh preacher to an strange individual and eventually deserted the bike at a canal in Phillaur.
