Chandigarh, March 19
The web services in Punjab, which have been suspended on Saturday because the police launched an operation to arrest Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh and his aides, has now been prolonged till Monday noon.
“All cellular web services, all SMS services (besides banking & cellular recharge) & all dongle services supplied on cellular networks, besides the voice name, in the territorial jurisdiction of Punjab shall be suspended from nineteenth March (12:00 hours) to twentieth March (12:00 hours) in the curiosity of public security,” the federal government mentioned.
Meanwhile, an enormous search operation continued on the second day on Sunday to nab pro-Khalistan activist Amritpal Singh, police has mentioned. The Punjab authorities had on Saturday launched a serious crackdown towards Amritpal, with police arresting 78 members of an outfit headed by him, officers mentioned.
Security has been tightened at many locations in Punjab with an intensive automobile checking.
Last month, Amritpal and his supporters, a few of them brandishing swords and weapons, broke by barricades and barged into the Ajnala Police Station on the outskirts of the Amritsar metropolis, clashing with police for the discharge of certainly one of Amritpal’s aide.
