India
oi-Prakash KL
Punjab Police on Saturday stated that folks from some international nations are spreading pretend information in reference to radical preacher and pro-Khalistan chief Amritpal Singh, who has been on the run for over a week now.
“We urge individuals not to consider the pretend reviews of the arrest of Amritpal Singh which might be being broadly circulated on social media,” ANI quoted Bathinda SSP Gulneet Khurana as saying. He accused “hearsay mongers” of spreading pretend information about Amritpal Singh’s arrest.
He blamed the pretend reviews on “hearsay mongers” primarily based within the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. “A number of individuals sitting within the UK, US, and Canada are spreading false information on social media that Amritpal is being tortured (in custody),” the SSP added.
He added, “BSF firms together with police personnel and 140 safety personnel from Bahadurgarh are at present deployed in Bathinda to guarantee peace.”
Earlier within the day, an alert was sounded in Uttarakhand over the opportunity of Amritpal Singh getting into the state, stated Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) V Murugesan.
Murugesan added that he had obtained inputs from the Punjab Police that the pro-Khalistan chief, who fled Punjab within the wake of the crackdown on Waris Punjab De, could enter Uttarakhand from Haryana. He informed ANI that checks and searches are underway and a safety alert has gone out in locations by which he can enter the state.
The officer added that the district police have additionally been alerted and vigilance stepped up on the borders.
Last Saturday, the cops had launched a main crackdown in opposition to Amritpal Singh and members of ‘Waris Punjab De.’ The elusive preacher himself, nonetheless, gave the police a slip and escaped their dragnet when his cavalcade was intercepted within the Jalandhar district.
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 considered one of Amritpal’s aide. An FIR dated February 24 stands registered in opposition to followers of ‘Waris Punjab De’, an organisation headed by Amritpal, for the assault on Ajnala Police Station, police had stated.
With inputs from businesses
