The Director General of Police Ashok Kumar has issued an alert in Dehradun, Haridwar, and Udhamsinghnagar districts of Uttarakhand as a precaution against the possibility of pro-Khalisthan activist Amritpal Singh entering the state. The police are conducting intensive checking at the borders of all three districts and other areas. It is noteworthy that all three districts of the state were affected by terrorism in the 1990s.
Meanwhile, in Punjab, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill announced that a total of 207 persons have been arrested for disturbing peace and harmony in the state, of which 30 have been found in substantive criminal activities, while the rest are under preventive arrest. The operation was carried out on the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann with an aim to save innocent youth from playing into the hands of anti-national forces.
The Punjab Police, in a joint operation with the Haryana Police, arrested a woman identified as Baljeet Kaur for harbouring Amritpal Singh and his aide Pappalpreet Singh at her home in Kurukshetra, Haryana, on March 19. Baljit Kaur revealed that Pappalpreet was in touch with her for the last two and a half years.
In a major breakthrough in the ongoing manhunt for the fugitive pro-Khalistan leader and radical preacher Amritpal Singh, Sukhchain Singh Gill revealed that his last location was in Haryana. The IGP said Baljeet Kaur disclosed during questioning that both Amritpal and his key aide, Papalpreet Singh, had stayed at her house on the night of March 19. They moved out of there the next day and changed their two-wheeler near a gurdwara at Sehowal village in Jalandhar and tried to get a boat to get across a river. However, they failed to get one and eventually used an overbridge to get across the river.
The police are examining the CCTV footage and are hopeful of arresting Amritpal soon. During the ongoing operation,
