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NATION APRIL 03, 2023 | The Indian Eye 6

Punjab tense as police arrest and shift some

‘Waris Punjab De’ supporters to Assam

Police teams also recover some incriminating material including holograms of Anandpur Khalsa Fauj
(AKF) and weapon training videos from the possession of an associate of Amritpal Singh

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Jalandhar/New Delhi

unjab’s Inspector General
of Police (IGP), Headquar-
Pters, Sukhchain Singh Gill on
Thursday said that a total of 207 per-
sons have been arrested for disturb-
ing peace and harmony in the state,
of which, 30 have been found in sub-
stantive criminal activities, while, re-
maining are under preventive arrest.
“Police teams are doing thor-
ough screening of all the arrested
persons and soon they will be re-
leased from police custody,” he said.
The IGP said that this operation
was carried out on the directions of
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann with
an aim to save the innocent youth of
Punjab from playing into the hands
of Anti-National Forces.
“Punjab Police have clear in-
structions from the Chief Minister
not to harass any innocent person
during the ongoing operation. Police
teams have even not harassed the
family members of Amritpal Singh,”
he said. Rapid Action Force (RAF) and police personnel conduct a flag march to maintain law and order after the arrest of associates
Divulging more details, IGP
Sukhchain Singh Gill said that the of Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh in Jalandhar (ANI)
Punjab Police in a joint operation
with Haryana Police have arrested laud in Khanna,” the IGP said. The report said that the arrested defying orders of Punjab Govern-
a woman identified as Baljeet Kaur According to sources, support- persons would have indulged in jail- ment not to display weapons in open,
for harboring Amritpal Singh and his ers and associates of Amritpal Singh break, had they been put in jail in beating youth so-called drug de-ad-
aide Pappalpreet Singh at her home were shifted out of Punjab after Punjab. diction centres who did not toe the
in Kurukshetra, Haryana on March Central Intelligence agencies raised “They would have radicalized line of WPD etc.
19. Accused Baljit Kaur revealed that concerns over possible jailbreak and other jailed criminals and would have “Had action not been taken un-
Pappalpreet was in touch with her for repeat of the Ajnala incident. associated them in Anandpur Khalsa der NSA, goons of Waris Punjab De
the last two and a half years,” he said. Thousands of Amritpal’s sup- Fauj/AKF,” the report said. would have repeated such incidents
He said that, during the ongoing porters had entered the Ajnala police It further read that they would as they did not believe in the majes-
operation, Khanna Police have also station in Amritsar on February 23 have created a law-and-order situ- ty of the law. Their links with pro-
another Amritpal’s close associate this year to free a member, who had ation by mobilizing support against scribed outfit SFJ (Sikhs for Justice)
identified as Tejinder Singh Gill alias been arrested in an abduction case. the arrest as seen in the Ajnala in- who have now come in open support
Gorkha Baba (42) of village Mange- A source in Intelligence agencies cident. Either they would have run of WPD,” it said.
wal in Khanna. has confirmed that after they had a their criminal activities from within In the Ajnala incident, the sup-
Police teams have also recovered meeting with state police officers and the jail in Punjab. porters of Amritpal brandished
some incriminating material includ- shared their intelligence report on The report read that the arrest- swords and high-caliber firearms
ing holograms of Anandpur Khalsa arrested ‘Waris Punjab De’ (WPD) ed persons were charged under NSA and threatened the police with dire
Fauj (AKF) and weapon training vid- associates under the National Secu- because they are using youth for vio- consequences if they did not release
eos, from his possession. An FIR on rity Act (NSA) and recommended lence and promoting gun culture by Lovepreet Toofan.
March 22 has been registered under shifting them out of Punjab. naming his private militia as Anand- The supporters, brandishing
sections 188 and 336 of the Indian Associates of Amritpal Singh pur Khalsa Fauj/AKF, a threat to na- swords and guns, broke through po-
Penal Code (IPC) and section 27 of have been shifted to the Dibrugarh tional integrity by openly declaring lice barricades erected outside the
the Arms Act at Police Station Ma- jail in Assam due to security reasons. that they do not believe in State and Ajnala police station.

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