Ashish Ranjan
CCTV camera captured Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh leaving the Haryana residence of a woman who had sheltered him while he fled the police. The video shows the wanted Khalistani leader departing his home in a white shirt and dark blue jeans while concealing his face with an umbrella.
The woman who sheltered Amritpal Singh and his aide Papalpreet Singh at her home in Kurukshetra, Haryana, has been apprehended, according to the police.
The timestamp on the video indicates Monday, two days after the Punjab police arrested him. He has since been on the run.”We have arrested Baljeet Kaur, the woman who sheltered Amritpal and his assistant Papalpreet Singh in her Shahebad residence on Sunday. She has been turned over to the Punjab Police, said Police Singh Bhoria, superintendent of police in Kurukshetra.
Amritpal Singh had changed vehicles five times in twelve hours to avoid capture on Saturday. Since that day, the Khalistani leader’s aide, Papalpreet Singh, has been with him, and the two have been seen in other CCTV footage.
He is the leader of “Waris Punjab De,” a radical organization founded by the late actor and activist Deep Sidhu, who was killed in a car accident in February of last year.On February 23, he participated in a massive protest against the detention of his key aide and alleged kidnapper, Lovepreet Singh. Six police officers were hurt during the conflict.
However, intelligence agents have informed that Amritpal Singh has engaged in a variety of “illegal activities,” including procuring weapons from Pakistan via its spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence and attempting to divide Punjab along communal lines.
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Amritpal Singh asserts that he is a disciple of the Khalistani separatist and militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, and his supporters refer to him as “Bhindranwale 2.0.”
