A recent CCTV footage has surfaced on social media purportedly exhibiting Papalpreet Singh, an in depth aide of radical preacher Amritpal Singh, in a “dera” in a village in Hoshiarpur at the same time as police continued their seek for them within the district on Saturday.
The footage is alleged to be of March 29, a day after a group of the counter intelligence wing of the Punjab Police chased an Innova automobile from Phagwara after it suspected that fugitive Amritpal Singh and his aide might be travelling in it.
The “dera” (a spot for non secular congregation) whose footage has surfaced is situated in village Tanauli, simply two to a few km away from Marnaian village in Hoshiarpur the place the police had launched their large seek for the duo.
Sources stated Papalpreet Singh was noticed within the CCTV footage of the dera of Wednesday morning. It is suspected that Papalpreet and Amritpal received separated in Hoshiarpur following the police chase of their automobile.
Papalpreet Singh is taken into account certainly one of Amritpal Singh’s mentors who had been advising him on varied points.
Police on Friday had expanded their seek for Amritpal Singh to “deras” and different doable hideouts of the fugitive preacher in Hoshiarpur district. Police had even deployed a drone to hint the suspects.
The radical preacher has been on the run since a police crackdown on his outfit Waris Punjab De on March 18. He has, nevertheless, appeared in two purported movies and an audio clip launched on social media up to now few days.
In the video, the Khalistan sympathiser asserted he was not a fugitive and would quickly seem earlier than the world.
In the audio clip, he debunked hypothesis he was negotiating his give up and nudged the Akal Takht for the second time to summon a “sarbat khalsa” congregation to debate points associated to the Sikh neighborhood.
The hunt to nab Amritpal Singh was launched in Hoshiarpur district Tuesday evening following inputs that the unconventional preacher and his aides might be there.
It started after police chased an Innova SUV from Phagwara, which sources stated could have carried Amritpal Singh and his aides. The occupants deserted the automobile close to Gurdwara Bhai Chanchal Singh in Marnaian and disappeared.
There had been additionally inputs the suspects might have used a Swift automotive after abandoning the SUV.
Police had recovered one other automobile from Phagwara which they suspected might have been utilized by the fugitive and his shut aide Papalpreet Singh.
Punjab Police have been on a excessive alert since Amritpal Singh escaped their internet in Jalandhar on March 18.
The crackdown on the Waris Punjab De chief was launched about three weeks after his supporters stormed a police station in Ajnala close to Amritsar to safe the discharge of an arrested man.
He and his associates have been booked in a number of legal circumstances associated to spreading disharmony amongst lessons, try and homicide, assault on police personnel and creating obstructions within the lawful discharge of responsibility by public servants.
