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The arrest got here days after, Amritpal Singh’s spouse Kirandeep Kaur was stopped from boarding a flight to London on the Sri Guru Ram Dass International Airport in Amritsar, on Thursday.
She was questioned by the immigration authorities and another officers for greater than three hours and thereafter, requested to return together with some family who had come to see her off on the airport.
Singh married Kaur, a UK-based Non-Resident Indian, on February 10.
The crackdown towards Amritpal started on March 18 and members of his outfit ‘Waris Punjab De.’ He nevertheless, escaped the police dragnet twice — first on March 18 in Jalandhar district by switching autos after which once more on March 28 in Hoshiarpur when he returned to Punjab alongside together with his key affiliate Papalpreet Singh.
Papalpreet, who is taken into account to be Amritpal’s mentor and who has allegedly been in contact with Pakistan’s ISI, has been arrested.
Several instances have been lodged towards the Khalistan sympathizer and his associates for allegedly spreading disharmony, try to homicide, assault on police personnel and obstructing the lawful discharge of obligation by public servants.
Despite being sighted in a number of CCTV footage and images with modified appearances at many locations, together with Patiala, Kurukshetra and Delhi, the unconventional preacher continued to hoodwink the police.
While on the run, two movies and one audio clip of Amritpal surfaced on social media. In one in all his two movies, which surfaced on March 30, Amritpal asserted that he was not a fugitive and would quickly seem.
The pro-Khalistan preacher had claimed that he was not like those that would flee the nation. There had been rumours that Amritpal would possibly give up on Baisakhi at Takht Damdama Sahib at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda, however that didn’t occur.
Recently, Punjab Police pasted posters of Amritpal at railway stations in Batala and Amritsar, asserting that an acceptable reward can be given to anybody who gives credible details about his whereabouts.
On April 15, police managed to nab Amritpal’s shut aide Joga Singh from Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib. According to them, Joga Singh was in direct contact with Amritpal and had even organized a shelter and autos for him in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit.
It was Joga Singh who introduced Amritpal and his aide Papalpreet again to Punjab on March 28.
Nine of Amritpal’s aides — Daljit Singh Kalsi, Papalpreet Singh, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, Varinder Singh Johal, Gurmeet Singh Bukkanwala, Harjit Singh, Bhagwant Singh, Basant Singh and Gurinderpal Singh Aujla — have been lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam and charged beneath the stringent National Security Act.
The 29-year-old Amritpal Singh was final yr anointed the pinnacle of ‘Waris Punjab De’, the organisation based by actor and activist Deep Sidhu in February final yr.
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