The Punjab authorities is learnt to have determined to increase the detention of Khalistani extremist and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh beneath the Nationwide Safety Act by a 12 months, sources mentioned on Friday.
Thirty-two-year-old Singh is at the moment lodged in a jail in Assam’s Dibrugarh, and was detained beneath the Nationwide Safety Act (NSA) after his arrest on April 23, 2023, a PTI report mentioned.
The detention of Singh’s 9 associates was not prolonged by the state authorities. They’d been introduced again to Punjab in batches from the Dibrugarh jail after their detention beneath the NSA had ended. They had been arrested in reference to the 2023 Ajnala police station assault.
Who’re these associates
They’ve been recognized as Basant Singh, Bhagwant Singh alias Pradhan Mantri Bajeke, Gurmeet Singh Gill alias Gurmeet Bukkanwala, Sarabjeet Singh Kalsi alias Daljeet Singh Kalsi, Gurinderpal Singh Aujla alias Guri Aujla, Harjeet Singh alias Chacha, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal alias Kulwant Singh, Varinder Johal and Pappalpreet Singh.
Who’s Amritpal Singh
Amritpal Singh, chief of the outfit ‘Waris Punjab De’, efficiently contested the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as an Impartial nominee from Khadoor Sahib in Tarn Taran district.
Amritpal, who styled himself after slain Khalistani terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, was arrested from Rode village in Moga district on April 23, 2023, following over a month-long manhunt.
The Khalistani extremist escaped the police web in Jalandhar district on March 18, 2023, by switching automobiles and altering his look.
Punjab Police launched the crackdown after the February 23, 2023, Ajnala incident wherein Amritpal and his supporters, a few of them brandishing swords and weapons, allegedly broke via the barricades, barged into the police station on the outskirts of Amritsar, and clashed with the cops for the discharge of his aides.
Amritpal and his aides had been booked on fees of spreading disharmony amongst lessons, try and homicide, assault on police personnel and creating obstructions within the lawful discharge of responsibility by public servants.
