CHANDIGARH: Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, earlier than escaping a Punjab Police crackdown on his outfit and supporters, attended 5 occasions in 10 days, and in these, he tried to radicalise Sikhs, coaxing 800-1,000 people to stay ready to make the last word sacrifice, officers stated. The radical preacher’s brazen actions evinced his methodical efforts to undermine the material of society, they claimed and added that he throughout his speeches and sermons alleged that the federal government was leaving no stone unturned in its quest to disarm Sikhs by revoking their weapons licences.
Amritpal Singh, who took over as ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief after its founder actor-activist Deep Sindhu’s loss of life final 12 months, is on the run after police launched a large crackdown on March 18 within the state and arrested a number of of his supporters.
It started weeks after the preacher and his supporters stormed the Ajnala police station close to Amritsar on February 23 to safe the discharge of an arrested affiliate. The episode raised fears over the potential for the return of Khalistani militancy to Punjab that borders Pakistan.
The officers stated the preacher allegedly implored kids to unify for securing “Khalsa rule” for the approaching generations of Punjab, proclaiming that the division throughout the Sikh Panth made them “vulnerable to the enemy’s onslaught”.
The Ajnala incident had reignited fears of a resurgence of Khalistani militancy within the state, they stated and identified that Amritpal Singh had ulterior motives to sully the peaceable atmosphere of Punjab, and this was exemplified by the kidnapping and assault on Barinder Singh.
Barinder Singh, in his criticism, had informed police that Amritpal Singh’s associates had kidnapped him from Ajnala and took him to an unknown place the place he was brutally thrashed.
In Februray, Dubai-return Amritpal Singh’s supporters stormed the police station to get Toofan Singh, the accused, launched.
During the Ajnala incident, he overtly defied authorities and didn’t chorus from injuring policemen within the course of, in keeping with officers.
Amritpal Singh had confirmed no qualms in partaking in sacrilege and vandalising gurdwaras in Kapurthala and Jalandhar, and stoking communal rigidity by delivering provocative speeches concentrating on different religions, they claimed.
He additionally openly inspired violence and gun tradition, exploited youth for his pernicious agenda, and described his personal militia because the ‘Anandpur Khalsa Fauj’, the officers alleged.
Earlier, that they had stated the fugitive preacher had been concentrating on drug addicts and rogue ex-servicemen to assist him construct a gang that might be simply remodeled right into a terrorist outfit.
The officers emphasised that had motion not been taken below the National Security Act (NSA), members of ‘Waris Punjab De’ would have gone scot-free.
Amritpal Singh, on one other event, allegedly threatened ‘Dera’ followers to eschew those that swindled their cash, lied to them and bombed them, and as a substitute love the Gurus who selflessly fought for his or her motherland and sacrificed their very own kids, they stated.
