Chandigarh, Apr 23: Radical preacher Amritpal Singh was arrested in Punjab’s Moga district on Sunday, more than a month after the state police launched a crackdown against him following the storming of the Ajnala police station by his supporters to secure the release of an arrested associate. A senior police official said that Amritpal Singh
Khalistan sympathiser and radical preacher Amritpal Singh who was absconding for over a month will be shifted to Dibrugarh, Assam, informed Punjab Police.
Refuting claims of Amritpal s sympathisers that he surrendered after paying obeisance at a Sikh shrine in the native village of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was killed in the Indian Army s Operation Blue Star in 1984, Gill, in a first official reaction, told the media here:
When Sikh separatist preacher Amritpal Singh was finally apprehended outside a Guruwara in Rode village in north Indian state Punjab's Moga district this morning, the contrived symbolism of the place could not be lost sight of