Police in India’s border state of Punjab have been in pursuit of a fugitive Sikh separatist chief for a number of days — even chopping off cell web and textual content messaging companies for the area’s greater than 27 million folks to forestall his supporters from gathering.

The self-styled preacher, Amritpal Singh, has known as on his followers to revive a banned secessionist motion that fought to create an unbiased state known as Khalistan for followers of the Sikh religion in Punjab within the Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties.