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GUWAHATI/ DIBRUGARH: Four arrested aides of fugitive separatist chief and preacher Amritpal Singh have been introduced to Dibrugarh jail in higher Assam Sunday morning following their arrest in Punjab the place police have launched a significant crackdown on Waris Punjab De (WPD) and brought into custody 78 folks tied to the unconventional group.
There’s no official phrase on why they have been transported so far-off from Punjab, however it’s being speculated that this was finished to isolate the prisoners in unfamiliar territory. “Punjab police might have thought they should be kept in Assam for a few days and accordingly sent them,” stated Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in Delhi, with out ascribing a motive.
Sarma stated there have been cases of prisoners from Assam being despatched to Bihar’s Bhagalpur jail for safety causes.
Though police of each states didn’t reveal their names, sources stated Daljit Singh Kalsi, Bhagwant Singh, Gurmeet Singh, and Pradhanmantri Bajeka have been the prisoners flown to Dibrugarh on an IAF transport aircraft. A group of 27 Punjab policemen headed by the IG prisons landed at Dibrugarh airport round 10.20am and took the quartet to the jail 15km away on a bus, escorted by an Assam police convoy of 13 autos. Police stated they have been stored in high-security cells.
The police crackdown adopted final month’s clashes when supporters of the pro-Khalistan group led by Amritpal stormed Ajnala police station, demanding the discharge of one of his aides arrested for rioting. WPD members are accused of crimes corresponding to tried homicide, assault on policemen, and disrupting social concord.
Sources in Assam police stated no case has been registered towards WPD within the northeastern state. According to Hoshiarpur SP Tejbir Singh Hundal, the 4 arrested males could be stored in Dibrugarh for a couple of days.
There’s no official phrase on why they have been transported so far-off from Punjab, however it’s being speculated that this was finished to isolate the prisoners in unfamiliar territory. “Punjab police might have thought they should be kept in Assam for a few days and accordingly sent them,” stated Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in Delhi, with out ascribing a motive.
Sarma stated there have been cases of prisoners from Assam being despatched to Bihar’s Bhagalpur jail for safety causes.
Though police of each states didn’t reveal their names, sources stated Daljit Singh Kalsi, Bhagwant Singh, Gurmeet Singh, and Pradhanmantri Bajeka have been the prisoners flown to Dibrugarh on an IAF transport aircraft. A group of 27 Punjab policemen headed by the IG prisons landed at Dibrugarh airport round 10.20am and took the quartet to the jail 15km away on a bus, escorted by an Assam police convoy of 13 autos. Police stated they have been stored in high-security cells.
The police crackdown adopted final month’s clashes when supporters of the pro-Khalistan group led by Amritpal stormed Ajnala police station, demanding the discharge of one of his aides arrested for rioting. WPD members are accused of crimes corresponding to tried homicide, assault on policemen, and disrupting social concord.
Sources in Assam police stated no case has been registered towards WPD within the northeastern state. According to Hoshiarpur SP Tejbir Singh Hundal, the 4 arrested males could be stored in Dibrugarh for a couple of days.
