Sunday Apr 23 2023
Capture comes following an extended manhunt for so called evangelist.
Police blame Singh, allies of endeavored murder and different offenses.
Ascent of Singh has resuscitated discuss free Sikh country Khalistan.
NEW DELHI: Indian police have captured Sikh rebel Amritpal Singh subsequent to looking for him for over a month, a state police official said on Sunday, a move against the recovery of a free country in the province of Punjab lining Pakistan.
The ascent of Singh, an evangelist in the northwestern province of Punjab where Sikhs are in the larger part, has restored discuss Khalistan — a free Sikh country — and stirred up fears of a re-visitation of brutality that killed huge number of individuals during the 1980s and mid 1990s during a Sikh uprising.
"Amritpal Singh has been captured from the Rode town in Moga region, Punjab based on unambiguous knowledge," Sukhchain Singh Gill, a high ranking representative of the Punjab police told correspondents.
The capture of Amritpal Singh, 30 — who drives a gathering called Waris Punjab De (the main successors to Punjab) — comes after the so called minister and many his allies raged a police headquarters with blades and guns, requesting the arrival of one of his helpers.
Police have blamed Singh and his allies for endeavored murder, hindrance of policing, making disharmony, and said he had been on the run since mid-Walk.
He was captured in the town gurudwara, a Sikh sanctuary, under the Public safety Act, which considers those considered a danger to public safety to be confined without energize for to a year, the police official said.
Gill said he would be moved to Dibrugarh, in the province of Assam, where a portion of his partners are as of now in prison.
