Teams of the Delhi Police and Punjab Police reportedly performed search operations within the nationwide capital and its borders after receiving intelligence inputs of sighting of fugitive pro-Khalistani chief Amritpal Singh and his mentor Papalpreet Singh at Delhi’s Inter State Bus Terminal or ISBT lately.

A senior Delhi police official, who requested to not be named, informed HT that the Punjab Police had info that Amritpal, within the guise of a sadhu (monk), had boarded a bus late on March 20 and deboarded close to Peepli on the Rajasthan-Haryana border in Jhunjhnu district the subsequent morning.

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“To track the travelling trail, the driver and other staff of the bus were questioned on Friday at the ISBT. It was a routine affair, nothing special,” the officer stated.

News company ANI reported that the Punjab Police expressed doubts about Amritpal coming into the Delhi border utilizing any automobile aside from a bus. Following the enter, the Delhi Police went on alert mode and is making an attempt to trace Amritpal’s actions.

An alert has additionally been issued in Dehradun, Haridwar, and Udhamsinghnagar districts of the Uttarakhand as a precaution in view of the chance Amritpal coming into the state.

Uttarakhand director normal of police Ashok Kumar has stated. “An alert has been issued in Dehradun, Haridwar, and Udhamsinghnagar districts of the state as a precaution in view of the possibility of pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh entering the state,” the DGP informed ANI.

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He stated that the police are conducting intensive checking on the borders of all three districts and in different areas. Significantly, all three districts of the state have been affected by terrorism within the 90s, he added.

Amritpal Singh, who took over as ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief after its founder actor-activist Deep Sindhu’s dying final 12 months, is on the run after police launched a large crackdown on March 18 in Punjab and arrested a number of of his supporters.

It started weeks after the preacher and his supporters stormed the Ajnala police station close to Amritsar on February 23 to safe the discharge of an arrested affiliate. The episode raised fears over the potential of the return of Khalistani militancy to Punjab that borders Pakistan.

(With inputs from ANI, PTI)