Punjab Police on Sunday arrested Balwant Singh, from Khanna town in Ludhiana district of Punjab, the person who had harboured radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh`s near aide Tejinder Singh Gill. Khanna Police stated that they’ve arrested Balwant Singh, the only who harboured Amritpal Singh’s near aide Tejinder Singh Gill. “His thinking is underway,” police stated, including that no connection among Amritpal Singh and Balwant Singh has been determined yet.
Tejinder Singh Gill alias Gorkha Baba, the center group member of Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, the Khanna Police on Friday launched incriminating films recovered from the cellular telecellsmartphone of Gorkha. The leader of Waris Punjab De remains escaping the State police’s dragnet. Amritpal Singh turned into declared a fugitive at the day, Punjab Police released a crackdown in opposition to him and his pro-Khalistan outfit.
Punjab Police on Saturday appealed to humans now no longer to accept as true with in rumours and faux information of the arrest of radical preacher Amritpal Singh, that’s being circulated on social media. Speaking at a press briefing on Saturday, Bathinda SSP Gulneet Khurana stated, “We urge humans now no longer to accept as true with the faux reviews of the arrest of Amritpal Singh which are being extensively circulated on social media.”
He blamed the faux reviews on “hearsay mongers” primarily based totally withinside the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. “A few humans sitting withinside the UK, US, and Canada are spreading fake information on social media that Amritpal is being tortured (in custody),” the SSP delivered.
He delivered, “BSF organizations at the side of police employees and one hundred forty safety employees from Bahadurgarh are presently deployed in Bathinda to make sure peace.” An alert turned into sounded in Uttarakhand over the opportunity of radical preacher Amritpal Singh getting into the state, knowledgeable Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) V Murugesan on Saturday morning.
Murugesan delivered that he had acquired inputs from the Punjab Police that the pro-Khalistan leader, who fled Punjab withinside the wake of the crackdown on Waris Punjab De, may also input Uttarakhand from Haryana. He advised ANI that exams and searches are underway and a safety alert has long past out in locations via which he can input the state.
The officer delivered that the district police have additionally been alerted and vigilance stepped up on the borders. Tejinder Singh aka Gorkha Baba, a resident of Punjab’s Mangewal village turned into arrested on Friday.
“Tejinder regularly lived with Amritpal and is worried withinside the Ajnala case as well. Gorkha Baba was Amritpal’s gunman for a protracted time. He turned into additionally energetic on social media, and his pix at the side of guns used to floor on social media. After which a separate case turned into registered in opposition to Tejinder in Malaud police station”, DSP Payal Harsimrat Singh advised ANI.
The police knowledgeable that motion has been taken in opposition to him beneathneath sections 107/151 of the Indian Penal Code (IPS). “Two different humans accompanying Tejinder have additionally been detained. They are being interrogated”, delivered the DSP.
The DSP stated that Tejinder had a records of crook cases, starting from combat to liquor smuggling, registered in opposition to him and he had additionally served a sentence in jail. On Friday, an alert turned into issued withinside the Dehradun, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts of Uttarakhand, amid reviews of Amritpal looking to input the state.
A group of Delhi Police and Punjab Police on Friday released a seek operation for Amritpal in Delhi and its border in view of the opportunity of him getting into the countrywide capital. However, Delhi Police later stated Waris Punjab De leader may also have left the countrywide capital.
On March 18, Punjab Police released an operation in opposition to Amritpal and his aides. The crackdown got here nearly over 3 weeks after Amritpal’s supporters clashed with uniformed employees on the Ajnala police station on February 23, at the outskirts of Amritsar, disturbing the discharge of one in all his near aides, Lovepreet Toofan.
