New Delhi: With ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh nonetheless on the run, all cell web, SMS, and dongle companies will stay suspended in Punjab until March 20 (12:00 hours), officia stated on Sunday. An official assertion from the Bhagwant Mann-led authorities stated that cell web companies stay suspended in Punjab in the “interest of public safety”.
“All mobile internet services, all SMS services (except banking and mobile recharge) and all dongle services provided on mobile networks, except the voice call, in the territorial jurisdiction of Punjab suspended till March 20 (12:00 hours) in the interest of public safety,” the Deparmentt of Home Affairs & Justice, Government of Punjab, stated.
A manhunt is presently on to nab radical Sikh preacher and Khalistan sympathizer Amritpal Singh.
“He is now a fugitive and we are looking for him and we will soon arrest him,” Jalandhar Police Commissioner Kuldeep Singh Chahal informed reporters close to Nakodar in Jalandhar late Saturday evening.
Chahal stated six to seven gunmen of Amritpal Singh have been arrested.
Punjab has launched a serious crackdown in opposition to Amritpal Singh
The Punjab authorities had on Saturday launched a serious crackdown in opposition to Amritpal Singh and arrested 78 members of an outfit — Waris Punjab De — headed by him.
The elusive preacher himself, nonetheless, gave the police a slip and escaped their dragnet when his cavalcade was intercepted in the Jalandhar district.
As the operation went underway, authorities stepped up safety at a number of locations and suspended web and SMS companies in the state until Sunday midday.
During their state-wide operation, police additionally seized one .315 bore rifle, seven 12 bore rifles, one revolver, and 373 reside cartridges of a special caliber.
78 arrested after mega crackdown in opposition to Waris Punjab de#AmritpalSingh fugitive, Police groups are on manhunt
Nine weapons together with 8 rifles, one revolver recovered throughout operation
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Security has been tightened at many locations in Punjab with intensive automobile checking.
Earlier final month, Amritpal Singh and his supporters — a few of them brandishing swords and weapons — broke via barricades and barged into the Ajnala Police Station on the outskirts of the Amritsar metropolis, clashing with police for the discharge of certainly one of Amritpal’s aides.
After the incident, in which six policemen together with a Superintendent of Police rank officer had suffered accidents, the Mann-led authorities in the state had confronted extreme flak and was accused of kowtowing to extremists.
Dubai-returned Amritpal Singh was final yr anointed the pinnacle of ‘Waris Punjab De’, which was based by actor and activist Deep Sidhu who died in a highway accident in February final yr.
