Amritpal Singh News LIVE: Cong Calls CM Mann a Liability, Singh's Gurdwara Halt in Focus as Punjab Cops Piece Together Plot

Punjab LoP Pratap Singh Bajwa said that there is no law and order in Punjab and there is an atmosphere of fear in the state. The leader went on to accuse CM Bhagwant Mann and said: “All this has been decided in Delhi. It is a complete intelligence failure.” The leader also mentioned that Mann is now a liability for Punjab.

Major protest inside Assembly as legislators raise “murdabad” slogan against Punjab government over Amritpal case and various other issues.

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring has written a letter to Punjab Police, highlighting the “growing concern regarding the large number of youngsters being rounded up”.

“Wrote a letter to @DGPPunjabPolice to highlight the growing concern regarding the large number of youngsters being rounded up. While @INCPunjab doesn’t support any leniency towards anti national elements, but a soft approach is needed to rehabilitate these misguided youngsters,” he said in a tweet.

The year 2022 saw the highest movement of drones carrying drugs into Punjab from Pakistan, with central agencies suspecting that the menace is linked to Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh’s arrival in the state.

According to data accessed by News18, last year, the Border Security Force — which tackles drone menace — noticed 256 drone movements in Punjab, of which 90 per cent were inside Indian territory. According to the data, the drone movements noticed by BSF in 2021 were 67. Read More

Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh  Raja Warring asked how did Amritpal Singh manage to escape in the presence of police officials, suspecting that the Khalistani leader was aware of the plan.

“How did Amritpal escape in the presence of police officials? It means Amritpal was aware of the plan. I doubt the intention of both Punjab and Central government. There is some conspiracy behind it. Action should be taken against those involved in anti-national activities and talk about Khalistan but action shouldn’t be taken against innocent youth of Punjab,” Amarinder Singh said.

As hunt continues for Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh for the fifth consecutive day, Punjab Police has said they have arrested 154 people for disturbing ‘peace and harmony’ in the state.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Headquarters Sukhchain IGP Gill reaffirmed that the situation in the state is totally stable and under control.

“A total of 154 persons have been arrested for disturbing peace and harmony in the state,” IGP Gill revealed at a press conference.

Punjab Police on Saturday launched an operation against Amritpal Singh and his aides.

He said that a lookout circular (LOC) and non-bailable warrant (NBW) have been issued against Amritpal Singh, who remains a fugitive and efforts are being made to arrest him. Punjab Police are getting full cooperation from other states and central agencies in this action, he added.

(With ANI inputs)

According to a report, Amritpal Singh spent at least 45 minutes in the gurdwara with the police forces on Saturday, March 18, when police was chasing him in the crackdown against him and his aides.

Ranjit Singh, the priest of the Nangal Ambian gurdwara, told Indian Express that he was worried when Amritpal Singh and his men came to his gurdwara as he thought they came to create a ruckus.

Amritpal was accompanied by four men when he reached the gurdwara and they said they were going to a programme for which they needed some clothes, the report said. At the gurdwara, Amritpal Singh’s men spoke to someone on the phone and reportedly asked about the ‘mahaul’. After 45 minutes during which they offered prayer, had food and changed their clothes, they left the gurdwara.

Amritpal came to the gurdwara at around 1 pm and left at 1.45 pm, the report mentioned, adding that the priest and his family members who provided Amritpal Singh clothes were unaware that he was being chased by the police till 4 pm. READ MORE

Fugitive pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh used several vehicles and changed his outfits while he was fleeing the police net during the crackdown on Saturday.

Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, Punjab IGP Sukhchain Singh Gill said the Brezza car, in which Amritpal Singh fled, has been recovered by the police.

“Amritpal along with three others went to a gurdwara in Mangal Ambian village (in Jalandhar district) in Breeza car. Amritpal then changed his outfit and wore a shirt and trouser. Amritpal along with three others escaped on bikes. Three people who went to the gurdwara in Breeza car with Amritpal have been arrested while those persons who fled with him on bikes are yet to be arrested. Breeza car has been recovered from one Manpreet Singh,” Gill said. READ MORE ()

Amid the massive manhunt to locate and arrest Amritpal Singh, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) reportedly reached Punjab on Tuesday.

Media reports quoted sources as saying that the NIA was seeking details and documents related to the Amritpal’s Singh case from the Punjab police and may take over the case from Tuesday.

The Uttarakhand Police on Tuesday conducted a combing operation at gurdwaras, hotels and in areas on the Indo-Nepal border in Udham Singh Nagar district in search of radical preacher Amritpal Singh and his associates, who are on the run after the Punjab Police launched a crackdown against them.

The police kept searching for these criminals across the district, City Superintendent of Police Manoj Katyal said in Rudrapur.

Following information from their Punjab counterparts that Singh and his associates were trying to flee the country, the police launched a search operation in Uttarakhand, he said.

From brave proclamations of not fearing arrest to making a sensational escape when the cops were on his tail, Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh is nowhere to be found even three days after a police crackdown on him, his aides and his supporters.

In CCTV footage released by police, the radical leader was last seen riding pillion on a motorcycle with new clothes, a pair of sunglasses and a swapped turban to mislead those on his trail. He is seen wearing a shirt and a pair of trousers instead of his flowing white robes, with his standard blue turban replaced by a pink one.

“There is nothing to fear about arrest… I’m not afraid of being arrested or even killed. If that was my concern, you know I wouldn’t be here where I am right now,” Amritpal had told News18 last Monday, sitting inside his fortified residence in Punjab’s Jallupur Khera village. READ MORE

The Punjab Police also responded to a plea in Punjab & Haryana High Court, that had alleged that Pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh was illegally arrested. CNN-News18 exclusively accessed the response in which Police had denied any detention or arrest of the radical ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief and called the allegations in the plea “totally baseless.”

Police in its response said, “Amritpal Singh has been professing radicals ideologies to setup Khalistan. He has been seeking support using all violent means for a making a separate nation.”

Earlier on Tuesday, Court also rammed the Punjab government for lapses in handling the case of Amritpal Singh. The court questioned the government on how the Khalistani sympathiser could escape when the government has 80,000-strong police force.

During the hearing of the habeas corpus petition on Tuesday, Court also rammed the Punjab government for lapses in handling the case of Amritpal Singh.

The court questioned the government on how the Khalistani sympathiser could escape when the government has 80,000-strong police force.

“When there was a threat to the security of the country, what was the government doing till now? They were roaming around with weapons. How did he manage to escape despite so many police. What are 80,000 police doing when the country’s security is in danger?” the High Court said.  Read More. 

The Punjab Police on Tuesday responded to a plea in Punjab & Haryana High Court, that had alleged that Pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh was illegally arrested. CNN-News18 exclusively accessed the response in which Police had denied any detention or arrest of the radical ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief and called the allegations in the plea “totally baseless.”

Police in its response said, “Amritpal Singh has been professing radicals ideologies to setup Khalistan. He has been seeking support using all violent means for a making a separate nation.”

An order to detain radical preacher Amritpal Singh under the stringent National Security Act was issued by the Amritsar district magistrate on Saturday, said a police officer’s affidavit which also described how the Waris Punjab De chief gave the cops the slip.

Punjab and Haryana High Court was on Tuesday hearing a habeas corpus petition which sought ‘release’ of Amritpal Singh claiming that he is already in illegal police costudy.

The affidavit which was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court was in response to a habeas corpus petition filed by petitioner Imaan Singh Khara, seeking the “release” of Amritpal from the alleged custody of police.

During the hearing of the petition on Tuesday, the state government said that Amritpal was neither detained nor arrested by police.

Welcome back to our LIVE blog where we are tracking all the latest updates in the crackdown on Amritpal Singh and his aides.

Fugitive pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh used several vehicles and changed his outfits while he was fleeing the police net during the crackdown on Saturday.

Addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, Punjab IGP Sukhchain Singh Gill said the Brezza car, in which Amritpal Singh fled, has been recovered by the police. READ MORE

Punjab Police on Tuesday released some photos of ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh. “There are several pictures of Amritpal Singh in different attires. We are releasing all of these pictures. I request you display them so that people can help us to arrest him in this case,” said Punjab IGP Sukhchain Singh Gill.

One Avtar Singh Khanda has been arrested for pulling down the Indian Flag at Embassy in London, United Kingdom on March 19. According to reports, his father Kulwant Singh Khukrana was a terrorist of the ‘Khalistan Liberation Force’.

Justice N S Shekhawat asked Punjab Advocate General Vinod Ghai how Amritpal Singh gave police the slip when the whole operation was meticulously planned, and called it an intelligence failure, a lawyer said.