Teams of the Delhi Police and Punjab Police reportedly performed seek operations withinside the country wide capital and its borders after receiving intelligence inputs of sighting of fugitive pro-Khalistani chief Amritpal Singh and his mentor Papalpreet Singh at Delhi`s Inter State Bus Terminal or ISBT recently.
A senior Delhi police official, who requested now no longer to be named, informed HT that the Punjab Police had records that Amritpal, withinside the guise of a sadhu (monk), had boarded a bus overdue on March 20 and deboarded close to Peepli at the Rajasthan-Haryana border in Jhunjhnu district the subsequent morning.
“To tune the traveling trail, the driving force and different team of workers of the bus have been puzzled on Friday on the ISBT. It became a recurring affair, not anything special,” the officer stated.
News employer ANI said that the Punjab Police expressed doubts approximately Amritpal getting into the Delhi border the usage of any car aside from a bus. Following the input, the Delhi Police went on alert mode and is attempting to tune Amritpal’s movements.
An alert has additionally been issued in Dehradun, Haridwar, and Udhamsinghnagar districts of the Uttarakhand as a precaution in view of the opportunity Amritpal getting into the country.
Uttarakhand director popular of police Ashok Kumar has stated. “An alert has been issued in Dehradun, Haridwar, and Udhamsinghnagar districts of the country as a precaution in view of the opportunity of pro-Khalistan chief Amritpal Singh getting into the country,” the DGP informed ANI.
He stated that the police are undertaking in depth checking at the borders of all 3 districts and in different areas. Significantly, all 3 districts of the country had been stricken by terrorism withinside the 90s, he added.
Amritpal Singh, who took over as ‘Waris Punjab De’ leader after its founder actor-activist Deep Sindhu’s demise ultimate year, is at the run after police released a big crackdown on March 18 in Punjab and arrested numerous of his supporters.
It started out weeks after the preacher and his supporters stormed the Ajnala police station close to Amritsar on February 23 to stable the discharge of an arrested associate. The episode raised fears over the opportunity of the go back of Khalistani militancy to Punjab that borders Pakistan.