Amritpal Singh surrendered as we speak at a gurdwara in Punjab’s Bathinda. (File)

New Delhi:

After eluding Punjab Police for 37 days, separatist and radical preacher Amritpal Singh lastly surrendered at a gurdwara in Punjab’s Moga. He is being shifted to the central jail in Assam’s Dibrugarh.

Punjab Police had launched a large crackdown towards Amritpal Singh and members of his outfit ‘Waris Punjab De’ on March 18. The crackdown was a response to the preacher’s supporters storming the Ajnala police station in February demanding the discharge of one in every of their outfit members.

Amritpal Singh had managed to hoodwink the police on two events – in Jalandhar on March 18 by switching automobiles after which once more on March 28 in Hoshiarpur when he returned to Punjab alongside along with his key affiliate Papalpreet Singh.

Papalpreet, who is taken into account to be Amritpal Singh’s mentor and who has allegedly been involved with Pakistan’s ISI, has been arrested.

The separatist and his associates are going through a number of felony expenses, together with an try to homicide and attacking police personnel.

Despite being sighted in a number of CCTV footage and pictures with modified appearances at many locations, together with Patiala, Kurukshetra, and Delhi, Amritpal Singh, who the federal government describes as a Khalistani-Pakistan agent, continued to remain out of the police fishnet.

While on the run, two movies and one audio clip of Amritpal surfaced on social media. In one in every of his two movies, which surfaced on March 30, Amritpal Singh asserted that he was not a fugitive and would quickly seem.

The separatist had claimed that he was not like those that would flee the nation.

Ahead of Baisakhi, which was celebrated on April 14, there have been rumours that Amritpal Singh might give up at Takht Damdama Sahib gurdwara in Bathinda in the course of the celebration. But that didn’t occur.  

Tight safety preparations in the course of the Baisakhi pageant at Talwandi Sabo, nevertheless, earned the wrath of Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh who accused the Punjab authorities of attempting to create panic. Police claimed that safety was deployed for the comfort and security of devotees.

The Jathedar of Akal Takht (the very best temporal seat of Sikhs) requested the fugitive preacher to cooperate with the police and give up. The enchantment, nevertheless, fell on deaf ears.

The seek for the fugitive was then widened – and police searched his possible hideouts in Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Wanted posters had been put up at a number of railway stations asserting that an applicable reward can be given to anybody who supplies credible details about Amritpal Singh’s whereabouts.

On April 15, police managed to arrest 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 automobiles for him in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit.

It was Joga Singh who introduced Amritpal and his aide Papalpreet again to Punjab on March 28.

Eight of Amritpal’s aides – Daljit Singh Kalsi, Papalpreet Singh, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, Varinder Singh Johal, Gurmeet Singh Bukkanwala, Harjit Singh, Bhagwant Singh and Gurinderpal Singh Aujla – have been charged underneath the NSA and are being held on the Dibrugarh central jail.

After being on the run for 37 days, Amritpal Singh as we speak lastly surrendered after addressing the group at a gurdwara in Punjab’s Moga.

Punjab Police has requested folks to keep up peace and never unfold pretend information.