Earlier than Punjab Police have been tipped off by an informant that radical preacher Amritpal Singh was in Rode village in Moga on Saturday afternoon, state intelligence companies have been at midnight about his location over the previous two weeks, since he was final noticed in Haryana’s Sirsa on April 5, folks with direct data of the matter stated on Sunday.
After Amritpal’s arrest, investigators are piecing collectively the complete sequence of occasions since he managed to evade the police on March 18 main as much as his seize on Sunday. Based on a senior intelligence official concerned in chasing Amritpal over the previous few weeks, the preacher managed to succeed in the home of one in all his supporters in Sirsa on April 3, 5 days after he gave police the slip but once more in a Hoshiarpur village on March 28.
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Police groups chasing Amritpal managed to hint among the individuals who helped him and his shut aide Pappalpreet. In all, eight folks have been arrested to this point for serving to Amritpal after he fled from Mehatpur city of Jalandhar on March 18 throughout a crackdown on the supporters of his organisation Waris Punjab De.
Intelligence officers stated Amritpal and Pappalpreet have been noticed in a Hoshiarpur village on March 28, the place they determined to separate. Amritpal reached Raipur village, the place he stayed at a home of one in all his associates, Hardeep Singh, on March 29 and 30. Police have arrested a lawyer Rajdeep Singh for serving to Amritpal with cash and offering a automobile together with a driver. Intelligence officers imagine Amritpal stayed on the driver’s home for 2 days earlier than leaving with him for Sirsa on April 2.
“He used the motive force’s cell phone. The motive force who was additionally detained by us instructed us that he left Amritpal in Sirsa. Amritpal wore denims and a T-shirt supplied by the motive force,” one other official from Amritsar rural police stated.
Earlier, on March 18 once they first fled Mehatpur, Amritpal and Pappalpreet reached Ludhiana the identical night and on March 19 they stayed on the home of a lady named Balbir Kaur in Hargobind Nagar for six hours. The girl was an in depth contact of Pappalpreet, officers stated.
Police stated that the identical night they reached Shahbad in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, the place they stayed on the home of one other lady known as Baljit Kaur, additionally an in depth contact of Pappalpreet. Earlier than police might attain the home, the 2 headed to Delhi in a bus, the probe has discovered.
Within the nationwide capital, the place CCTV footage retrieved by police discovered Amritpal strolling round carrying denims, he contacted a lady learning in Ludhiana, who was once more a contact of Pappalpreet, and stayed at her rented condominium for 2 days in Delhi.
Earlier than they headed in the direction of Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh between March 22 and 24, police suspect {that a} dera concerned in kar seva (voluntary service) and having a base in Pilibhit facilitated each. A dera follower Joga Singh, a resident of Ludhiana district, drove Amritpal to a different dera in Hoshiarpur on March 28 by way of Uttarakhand in two automobiles bearing stickers of the dera.
“When our crew intercepted Amritpal at Marnaian Kalan village, we had credible data that he was heading in the direction of Akal Takht Sahib with a plan to look on the highest Sikh temporal seat and take shelter however once we tried to observe him, he left the automobile at a neighborhood gurdwara and travelled 10-15km by foot to succeed in Rajpur Bhaiyan village,” an ADGP-rank officer stated.
How Amritpal reached Rode village just isn’t but recognized to police, the officer stated.
“The place Amritpal was after Sirsa just isn’t but often known as we couldn’t interrogate him after his arrest as a result of he was instantly flown to Dibrugarh,” a Punjab Police investigator stated.