Pro-Khalistani Preacher Amritpal Singh Shifted To Assam’s High-Security Dibrugarh Central Jail

The preacher was taken into custody in the early hours of the morning at 6.45 am as he came out – in traditional attire that included a sheathed sword – of the gurdwara in Rode, Bhindranwale’s native village and also the place which he took over last year as the chief of Waris Punjab De.
The Punjab Police which had completely surrounded the Gurudwara where Singh was hiding, detained the 29-year-old radical under the stringent National Security Act. A joint operation was conducted by Amritsar police and the intelligence wing of Punjab Police. He was located in village Rode based on operational inputs with Punjab Police. He was surrounded from all sides. The village was surrounded by the Punjab Police, said Inspector General of Police Sukhchain Singh Gill.
Amritpal was Flown To Assam The special flight which brought him to Assam’s Dibrugarh, nearly 2,000 km from Bhatinda Air Force station, landed at Dibrugarh at 2.20 pm and a double cordon of armed police personnel whisked him away for a medical check-up and other formalities before eventually lodging him in the Central Jail, where nine other associates of his, picked up over the past several weeks, have also been kept.
Shortly after his arrest, a video surfaced online in which the extremist preacher was seen delivering a brief address, indicating that he is surrendering. Another clip showed him sitting before a portrait of Bhindranwale, who died in a controversial Army operation in 1984 to flush out militants holed up inside Amritsar’s Golden Temple.
Gill countered the preacher’s claim that it was a u2018surrenderu2019 and underlined that the fugitive was cornered on the basis of intelligence inputs. A message was conveyed to the preacher that he had no chance of escaping, Gill said. NSA warrants were issued against Amritpal Singh and these have been executed today morning. Further, the law will take its own course, he said.
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