Punjab police on Tuesday shut down a drug de-addiction centre run by `Waris Punjab De` chief Amritpal Singh within the State`s Amritsar district. The facilty was working in Jallupur Khera in Amritsar.Gurmukh Singh, the caretaker of the centre mentioned, “Police arrived here and conducted a search. They asked us to shut down the centre. Seventy people who had arrived to receive treatment were sent back.”
The caretaker claimed that the police had discovered nothing on the centre and that solely de-addiction therapies got on the facility. “Amritpal used to come here, and people came to treat their problems. Nothing wrong is going on here and whatever is being said about the place is all wrong,” the caretaker mentioned.
Earlier on Tuesday, the worldwide borders with Nepal, Pakistan amongst others have been alerted after the Centre circulated a message to the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) contemplating the likelihood that Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh may flee the nation.
The MHA has requested chiefs of each the BSF and the SSB to direct their forces deputed on the worldwide borders to be on alert amid the continued hunt towards the pro-Khalistani Amritpal Singh whose hunt entered the fourth day on Tuesday, mentioned high authorities sources.
All the important thing Border Outposts at International Borders with Nepal, Punjab and Bangladesh and the frontier models of the BSF and the SSB positioned there have been alerted with a message to be on excessive alert with intelligence enter that Amritpal Singh could escape the nation to keep away from his arrest, mentioned a supply, requesting anonymity.
Pictures of Amritpal Singh have additionally been circulated on these key exit factors on the International Borders in order that the unconventional self-styled Sikh preacher couldn’t depart the nation, mentioned the supply.A senior official mentioned the 2 paramilitary forces had already despatched all required inputs to their discipline models with images of Amritpal Singh – with and and not using a turban.
The transfer got here amid a large crackdown by the Punjab Police towards Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh entered the fourth day on Tuesday. The Punjab Police has declared Amritpal Singh a fugitive.
While Amritpal Singh`s uncle Harjit Singh and driver Harpreet Singh have surrendered earlier than the Jalandhar police, the unconventional preacher remains to be on the run. The Punjab authorities additionally prolonged the suspension of cellular web and SMS companies.
The Punjab authorities on Saturday launched a significant crackdown towards Amritpal, with the police arresting 78 members of an outfit headed by him.The police motion comes a day earlier than the beginning of Amritpal`s `Khalsa Wahir` – a spiritual procession – from Muktsar district.
The elusive preacher, nevertheless, gave the police the slip and escaped their dragnet when his cavalcade was intercepted in Jalandhar district, at the same time as authorities stepped up safety at a number of locations in Punjab.
An FIR was lodged towards Amritpal and his supporters for breaking by means of a police checkpoint and one other associated to the restoration of a firearm within the car present in a Jalandhar village.Punjab Inspector General of Police Sukhchain Singh Gill has mentioned they strongly suspect an ISI angle and international funding in `Waris Punjab De`.He has additionally mentioned a complete of 114 folks have been arrested to this point for the reason that crackdown has launched. (ANI)
