Check out updates of state-wide operation by Punjab Police to hunt down self-styled radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh
‘A massive manhunt has been launched in Punjab to arrest self-styled radical Sikh preacher and Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh. Punjab Police has declared him a ‘fugitive’ and he is on the run since Saturday.
A total of 78 people have been arrested so far, including six to seven gunmen of Amritpal. Security has been beefed up in many places across the state and there has been intensive vehicle checking. Police have been deployed outside Singh’s house. According to police, 13 rifles along with one revolver and 373 live cartridges have been seized so far during the state-wide operation.
Amritpal remained on the run till the time of going to print but 78 of his supporters were arrested in a statewide operation
Amritpal Singh, the leader of the group Waris Punjab De, is an “ISI agent” who was brought to India by the Pakistani spy agency to spread violence over the Khalistan secessionist movement, officials in central intelligence agencies said on Saturday, as state police launched a crackdown to arrest him and his aides.
