Punjab Police Shut Down Amritpal Singh’s Drug De-Addiction Centre In Amritsar

Amritsar: 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 facility was working in Jallupur Khera in Amritsar. Gurmukh Singh, the caretaker of the centre stated, “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 remedies 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 stated. 

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 would possibly flee the nation. 

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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 continuing hunt towards the pro-Khalistani Amritpal Singh whose hunt entered the fourth day on Tuesday, stated 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 might escape the nation to keep away from his arrest, stated 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 go away the nation, stated the supply.

A senior official stated the 2 paramilitary forces had already despatched all required inputs to their discipline models with images of Amritpal Singh – with and with out a turban.

The transfer got here amid an enormous 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 continues to be on the run. 

The Punjab authorities additionally prolonged the suspension of cell web and SMS providers.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 non secular procession – from Muktsar district. 

The elusive preacher, nonetheless, 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 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 stated they strongly suspect an ISI angle and overseas funding in `Waris Punjab De`.He has additionally stated a complete of 114 folks have been arrested thus far because the crackdown has launched.