Manhunt for Amritpal Singh in Delhi

Amid the ongoing manhunt for fugitive proKhalistani leader Amritpal Singh teams of Delhi Police and Punjab Police on Friday launched a search operation in Delhi and its border in view of the possibility of his entering the national capitalDelhi Police sources on Friday said that the head of the proKhalistani outfit Waris Punjab De is suspected to have left for DelhiAccording to sources Delhi Police and Punjab Police were conducting a search operation in Delhi and its borders after receiving intelligence inputs of a sighting of Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal at Delhis ISBT bus terminalIntelligence inputs suggested that he may be disguised as a sadhu Papalpreet Singh is accompanying Amritpal Singh said sourcesAlso Read Cops still havenrsquot found Amritpal SinghThe Punjab Police expressed doubts about Amritpal entering the Delhi border using any vehicle other than a bus Following the input Delhi Police went on alert mode and are trying to track Amritpals movementsAn alert has also been issued in Dehradun Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts of Uttarakhand as a precaution in view of the possibility of Amritpal Singh entering the stateAn alert has been issued in Dehradun Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts of the state as a precaution in view of the possibility of proKhalistan leader Amritpal Singh entering the state Uttarakhand Director General of Police Ashok Kumar said told ANIHe said that the police are conducting intensive checking on the borders of all three districts and in other areas Significantly all three districts of the State have been affected by terrorism in the 90s he addedEarlier on Friday the Punjab Police released as many as 44 persons who were taken into preventive arrest during the ongoing operation against those trying to disturb law and order in the stateOn Thursday Punjabs Inspector General of Police IGP Headquarters Sukhchain Singh Gill said that a total of 207 persons have been arrested for disturbing peace and harmony in the stateIGP Gill pon Thursday revealed that the Waris Punjab De chiefs last location was in HaryanaAddressing a press conference in Chandigarh on Thursday the IGP said We are still actively searching forAmritpal Singh and have come to know that its last location was in Haryana We have taken a woman named Baljeet Kaur into custody Amritpal stayed at this womans house in Kurukshetra Haryana and the Waris Punjab De chief and his close aide had been in touch with her for the last twoandahalf years 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 19We arrested Baljeet Kaur with the help of Haryana Police She disclosed during interrogation that on the night of March 19 both Papalpreet Singh and Amritpal had put up at her place She said she had Papalpreet for more than the last couple of years and he had stayed at her house on several occasions the IGP saidAfter staying the night they moved out of there her house the next day We are examining the CCTV footage and are hopeful of arresting Amritpal soon he addedThe Punjab IGP informed further that Amritpal and his aide changed their twowheeler near a gurdwara at Sehowal village in Jalandhar and tried to get a boat to get across a riverOur team continues to be in his trail We are examining CCTV footage retrieved from several locations in a bid to trace his whereabouts They changed their twowheeler at a gurdwara at Sehowal village and tried to get a boat to cross the river However they failed to get one and eventually used an overbridge to get across the river the IGP addedAfter roaming around in another twowheeler they hired an autorickshaw After this they were located at Kurukshetra Gurpej one of the four men arrested for allegedly helping Amritpal escape who is currently in our custody told us about another woman apart from Baljeet Kaur who he may turn to for refuge the IGP addedOn March 18 Punjab Police launched an operation against Amritpal and his aides The crackdown came almost over three weeks after Amritpals supporters clashed with uniformed personnel at the Ajnala police station on February 23 on the outskirts of Amritsar demanding the release of one of his close aides Lovepreet ToofanThousands of his supporters stormed the Ajnala police station flashing swords and highcalibre firearms and threatening the police with dire consequences if they did not release Lovepreet Toofan who was arrested for allegedly assaulting and abducting a manThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever