Assam DGP said that a search operation led to the recovery of numerous unauthorised items, including a spy camera, a smartphone, a keypad phone, pen drives, Bluetooth headphones and speakers, a smartwatch, among others from the NSA cell.
The final go-ahead to arrest 30-year Singh, a secessionist preacher who demands an independent country for Sikhs, was given on March 18, with police maintaining a close watch on his itinerary.
This was a major miscalculation on the part of the state police, the officials said while piecing together the turn of events since February 23 when Singh, a Khalistan advocate, had stormed a police station in Ajnala of Amritsar district and secured the release of his aide Lovepreet Singh Toofan.
The self-styled radical preacher is behind the pro-Khlistan protests in Punjab following which the state government has launched a massive crackdown against the members of the Waris Punjab De headed by him.
Few weeks back, Khalistani extremist and ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh, who stormed with thousands of his supporters at Ajnala police station in