A MONTH GONE BY, AGENCIES FAIL TO LOCATE AMRITPAL
Sources said that Amritpal’s objective is to reach either the United Kingdom or Canada.
The fact that Amritpal has managed to evade arrest for so long despite being one of the most wanted men in India, means that Singh has become a challenge to the internal security apparatus of India. This also raises questions on the capability of government bodies to locate and neutralise identified individuals like Singh.
Multiple Central agencies and the various wings of the Punjab police have failed to locate and arrest Khalistani voice Amritpal Singh who had fled their dragnet more than a month ago on 18 March from Jalandhar district.
Official sources told The Sunday Guardian that he had not fled India despite multiple media reports stating the contrary. A lead that was developed by one of the intelligence agencies had stated that he had fled to Dubai from Kathmandu earlier this month. However, that turned out to be incorrect information.
The fact that he has managed to evade arrest for so long despite being one of the most wanted men in India, means that Singh has become a challenge to the internal security apparatus of India, which also raises questions on the capability of these government bodies to locate and neutralise
identified individuals like Singh.
According to one official, Amritpal was in all likelihood getting support from the common people who were helping him to stay hidden, commute and communicate, which was making it more difficult for the agencies to find him.
The Punjab police had arrested one of his closest associates, Papalpreet Singh, from Amritsar on 10 April. Singh’s selfies with Amripal had surfaced online mocking the police after they escaped from Amritsar on 18 March. According to a section within the intelligence community, Papalpreet now among one of the most prominent hotspots for Khalistani activities.
Sources told The Sunday Guardian that Amritpal’s objective is to reach either the United Kingdom or Canada, where a section of the Sikh diaspora is openly working for the separate state of Khalistan supported by Pakistan’s intelligence agencies that handle the “K2 (Kashmir-khalistan)” Singh allowed himself to be project. arrested in an effort to allow In case Amritpal flees India the shifting of focus of the and surfaces in either of security agencies on Amritpal. these two countries, it will On Thursday, Kirandeep come as a massive embarrassment Kaur, whom Amritpal not just for the had married this year, was Punjab police, but for the stopped from leaving the Central agencies, as Singh country as she was about is now identified among a to board a flight from Amritsar “big” face of the Khalistani to London which is community.