‘He came here at night’, Rode gurudwara cleric narrates sequence leading to Amritpal Singh’s arrest : The Tribune India

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Moga, April 23

Hours earlier than his arrest, ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh addressed the devotees this morning in Rode village gurdwara in Punjab’s Moga.

“Amritpal Singh came to the gurdwara on Saturday night time. He himself knowledgeable the police about his presence and that he’ll give up this morning at 7 am,” claimed Giani Jasbir Singh Rode of Rodewal gurdwara in Moga, whereas talking to ANI over telephone.

Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, who was absconding for over a month is being shifted to Dibrugarh, Assam, knowledgeable Punjab Police sources.

Amritpal has been on the run since March 18, the day Punjab Police launched an enormous manhunt for him.

Papalpreet Singh, an in depth aide of Amritpal Singh, was taken to Assam’s Dibrugarh Central Jail on April 11 after he was arrested.

Associates of Amritpal Singh have been shifted out of Punjab after Central Intelligence businesses raised considerations over doable jailbreak and repeat of the Ajnala incident on March 11.

Earlier on Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah when requested about Amritpal Singh’s arrest and that he has been absconding for an extended, stated, “It could occur someday. Earlier he used to roam freely, however now he can not keep on along with his actions.” Two extra aides of ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh have been arrested at Mohali in Punjab, in a joint operation by Punjab and Delhi Police on April 18.

On April 15, Punjab Police arrested his shut aide Joga Singh from Sirhind within the Fatehgarh Sahib district.

The radical chief had been declared a “fugitive” whereas he was on a run earlier in March.

His two vehicles have been seized and gunmen nabbed. The crackdown came after Amritpal’s supporters stormed Ajnala police station in Amritsar on February 23, demanding the discharge of certainly one of his aides, Lovepreet Toofan.