New Delhi:

Khalistani chief Amritpal Singh is on the run from the Punjab Police, who’re making an attempt to arrest him, sources have stated. At least 78 individuals have been arrested and a few have been detained for questioning, the police stated. Daljeet Singh Kalsi, who handles finance for Amritpal Singh, has been arrested in Haryana’s Gurgaon by the Punjab Police.

A particular crew of the state police, comprising personnel from seven districts, had adopted the Khalistani chief’s convoy whereas he was on his option to Jalandhar’s Shahkot tehsil. Sources stated he was final seen rushing away on a bike.

Internet has been snapped throughout Punjab until 12 pm tomorrow as Amritpal Singh’s aides began circulating frantic movies interesting to supporters to succeed in Shahkot.

Anticipating disturbance, a big contingent of police has been deployed exterior Amritpal Singh’s village, Jallupur Khaira, in Amritsar district. Sources stated police and paramilitary forces have sealed the village.

Sources stated the state authorities waited for the G20 occasion to recover from to provoke motion in opposition to him.

Amritpal Singh leads “Waris Punjab De”, a radical organisation began by actor and activist Deep Sidhu, who died in a highway accident in February final yr.

The police closed all roads and arrange big barricades in Shahkot as they’d prior info of Amritpal Singh’s go to. The Khalistani chief, who has been lively in Punjab for just a few years, is commonly seen escorted by armed supporters.

Amritpal Singh was on the centre of a large protest on February 24 in opposition to the arrest of his key aide, kidnapping accused Lovepreet Singh. His supporters, a few of them brandishing swords and weapons, broke via barricades and barged right into a police station in Ajnala on the outskirts of the Amritsar metropolis, extracting an assurance from the police that Lovepreet Singh could be launched. He had later blamed the Punjab Police for the violence.

Six police personnel, together with a Superintendent of Police rank officer, have been injured through the conflict. The police haven’t but revealed whether or not an FIR was lodged in opposition to Amritpal Singh for the violence.

Reacting to the police motion at the moment, Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu stated the person who “used to talk about taking up arms for Khalistan is today running away fearing the police”.

“Does a Sikh ever run away? He would have faced the police if he had courage. He is running around in the streets like a gidad (jackal). I used to say earlier, too, that he has come to get our children killed. He is a man of (intelligence) agencies,” he stated.

Facing warmth from the opposition events within the state, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had lately stated his authorities was dedicated to sustaining regulation and order within the state, and nobody could be allowed to disturb the hard-earned peace.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur had earlier this month attacked the AAP authorities in Punjab, saying regulation and order “collapsed” within the state after the formation of “one government”, and instructed it “wakes up” and takes some steps.