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Hunt for Amritpal Singh Results in Tense Car Chase, Punjab Police Arrest 6 Associates


Last Updated: March 18, 2023, 14:38 IST

Heavy police deployment was seen in Moga district of Punjab. (News18 Photo)

Sources say there was a tense car chase involving Amritpal Singh and the Punjab police, but Singh may have escaped from the spot.

Six associates from controversial Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh’s team were arrested by the Punjab Police on Saturday, sources told CNN-News18.

Sources say there was a tense car chase involving Amritpal Singh and the Punjab police, but Singh may have escaped from the spot.

Heavy police deployment was seen in Moga district of Punjab.

Earlier this month, a close aide of Amritpal Singh was arrested at the Amritsar airport after he allegedly tried to flee the country.

Airport authorities at Sri Guru Ramdass International airport detained Gurinderpal Singh Aujala, who reportedly handled social media for the controversial radical preacher.

Officials said that Aujala was trying to flee to England. Sources said he was trying to take an Air India flight to London.

Anger Over Ajnala Incident

On February 24, an armed mob led by the radical Sikh preacher clashed with police and laid siege to the Ajnala police station near Amritsar. They demanded the release of one of their colleagues who had been taken into custody in an alleged kidnapping case.

Six policemen were injured in the bloody clash.

Police officials later clarified that they were unable to control the crowd as they were carrying a physical copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, also called Bir in Punjabi, as a shield.

After 12 days of the bloody clash, Punjab Police had decided to cancel nine arms licenses of Amritpal Singh’s guards. Also, the police sought details of his security guards.

Inexplicably, there is no FIR against him yet after the incident raising questions over the ruling AAP government.

In an interview to News18 last week, 30-year-old Singh said, “I think the current government will think maturely what they will do (against me). I do not fear being arrested or being killed. But what charges are they going to arrest me on?” – Full Interview here

On the criticism against him, Singh claimed he has been carrying a ‘swaroop’ of Guru Granth Sahib wherever he goes. “It was false propaganda against me and that day it was not even an issue in Ajnala. Police had falsely imprisoned a person and had to release him. Then they started this whole propaganda,” Singh told News18 earlier.

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