Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, April 24
Security was the explanation that the Khalistan supporter Amritpal Singh, who was arrested from Punjab’s Moga on Sunday, was taken to Assam’s Dibrugarh.
The 166-year-old Assam jail in Dibrugarh is alleged to be among the many most safe prisons within the northeast of India. Nine aides of Amritpal, members of the ‘Waris Punjab De’, are additionally lodged in the identical jail.
The Punjab Police might have additionally shifted Amritpal there to keep away from the potential of a jailbreak as police had been apprehensive a few repeat of the Ajnala jailbreak incident.
The Punjab Police arrested Amritpal Singh in Moga’s Rode village early Sunday, ending an over a month-long manhunt towards the Khalistani activist who styled himself after Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
“Amritpal has been stored in a separate cell, in a distant from his accomplices who’re additionally in the identical jail after they had been arrested throughout Punjab Police crackdown,” a senior official advised ANI.
The official added {that a} crew of Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and different Central Intelligence businesses would query Amritpal in Dibrugarh jail.
“He will probably be questioned on his affiliation along with his sympathisers and his supply of funding. Because intelligence businesses have gotten a whole lot of inputs concerning his affiliation with handlers in Pakistan and different international locations,” the official mentioned.
“We have requested Assam Police to beef up safety round jail premises and guests to the jail to be completely frisked and their particulars to be stored in report. Apart from state police, Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) can also be deployed within the periphery of jail premises,” he added.
A particular chartered flight from Bathinda Airport accompanied by a crew of Punjab police took off at 8.25 am and reached the Dibrugarh Airport at 2.20 pm. They had been obtained by senior Assam Police officers on the airport and he was instantly taken to Dibrugarh Jail the place he was stored in a cell after a medical examination. With ANI inputs
