Amritpal Singh’s partner stopped, questioned at Amritsar airport sooner than boarding London flight

By PTI

AMRITSAR: Fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh’s partner Kirandeep Kaur was stopped on the Sri Guru Ram Dass International Airport proper right here by immigration officers whereas she was trying to board a flight to London, sources said on Thursday.

She was learnt to have been questioned by the immigration authorities, they said.

Singh married Kaur, a UK-based NRI, in February this yr.

Punjab Police officers refused to answer questions posed by media people on the airport.

Amritpal and his associates have been booked under quite a lot of authorized cases related to spreading disharmony amongst classes, attempt to murder, assault on police personnel and creating obstructions throughout the lawful discharge of obligation by public servants.

On February 10, Singh acquired married to Kaur in a simple ceremony at Jallupur Khera, his native village in Amritsar.

The ‘Anand Karaj’ (marriage as per Sikh rituals) was held with a restricted gathering of relations from all sides at a gurudwara in Baba Bakala in Amritsar.

Singh had said {{that a}} marriage ceremony must be simple and urged of us to not delight in ‘show-off’ by splurging money on grand weddings.

The preacher said his marriage was an occasion of reverse migration and launched that he and his partner would reside in Punjab.

One month on, no sight of Amritpal moreover in CCTV footage

Radical preacher Amritpal Singh has managed to remain elusive even a month after the Punjab police launched a crackdown following the storming of the Ajnala police station by his supporters to secure the discharge of an arrested affiliate.

escaped the police dragnet twice — first on March 18 in Jalandhar district by switching autos after which as soon as extra on March 28 in Hoshiarpur when he returned to Punjab alongside alongside along with his key affiliate Papalpreet Singh.

Papalpreet, who’s taken under consideration to be Amritpal’s mentor and who has allegedly been in contact with Pakistan’s ISI, has been arrested.

Several cases have been lodged in opposition to the Khalistan sympathizer and his associates for allegedly spreading disharmony, attempt to murder, assault on police personnel and obstructing the lawful discharge of obligation by public servants.

Despite being sighted in quite a lot of CCTV footage and pictures with modified appearances at many places, along with Patiala, Kurukshetra and Delhi, the novel preacher continued to hoodwink the police.

While on the run, two motion pictures and one audio clip of Amritpal surfaced on social media.

In thought-about considered one of his two motion pictures, which surfaced on March 30, Amritpal asserted that he was not a fugitive and would shortly appear.

The pro-Khalistan preacher had claimed that he was not like people who would flee the nation.

There have been rumours that Amritpal could hand over on Baisakhi at Takht Damdama Sahib at Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda, nonetheless that did not happen.

Tight security preparations in the midst of the Baisakhi pageant at Talwandi Sabo, nonetheless, earned the wrath of Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh who accused the Punjab authorities of trying to create panic.

Police claimed that security was deployed for the consolation and safety of devotees.

The Jathedar of Akal Takht, the easiest temporal seat of Sikhs, had even requested the fugitive preacher to surrender sooner than the police and cooperate with the investigation.

The enchantment, nonetheless, fell on deaf ears.

Police continued to go searching his potential hideouts, the latest being in Haryana’s Sirsa a few days up to now.

Earlier, searches have been moreover carried out in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

Recently, Punjab Police pasted posters of Amritpal at railway stations in Batala and Amritsar, asserting that a suitable reward may be given to anyone who provides credible particulars about his whereabouts.

On April 15, police managed to nab Amritpal’s shut aide Joga Singh from Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib.

According to them, Joga Singh was in direct contact with Amritpal and had even organized a shelter and autos for him in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit.

It was Joga Singh who launched Amritpal and his aide Papalpreet once more to Punjab on March 28.

Nine of Amritpal’s aides — Daljit Singh Kalsi, Papalpreet Singh, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, Varinder Singh Johal, Gurmeet Singh Bukkanwala, Harjit Singh, Bhagwant Singh, Basant Singh and Gurinderpal Singh Aujla — have been lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam and charged under the stringent National Security Act.

Ahead of the Baisakhi pageant, Punjab police chief Gaurav Yadav had said that these wanted by the laws should bear the strategy of laws.

Amid tales that Amritpal may want taken shelter at a non secular place, the best police officer had said that religious places should not be misused.

The 29-year-old Amritpal Singh was closing yr anointed the head of ‘Waris Punjab De’, the organisation primarily based by actor and activist Deep Sidhu in February closing yr.

She was learnt to have been questioned by the immigration authorities, they said.

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