Radical Khalistan preacher Amritpal Singh, who was arrested by the Punjab Police from Moga’s Rode village on Sunday after a month-long man-hunt, was flown by a special flight from Bhatinda air force station to Assam’s high-security Dibrugarh Central Jail.
The preacher was taken into custody in the early hours of the morning at 6.45 am as he came out – in traditional attire that included a sheathed sword – of the gurdwara in Rode, Bhindranwale’s native village and also the place which he took over last year as the chief of Waris Punjab De.
The Punjab Police which had completely surrounded the Gurudwara where Singh was hiding, detained the 29-year-old radical under the stringent National Security Act. “A joint operation was conducted by Amritsar police and the intelligence wing of Punjab Police. He was located in village Rode based on operational inputs with Punjab Police. He was surrounded from all sides. The village was surrounded by the Punjab Police,” said Inspector General of Police Sukhchain Singh Gill.