As Punjab Cops Search For Khalistani Leader, His 4 Aides Flown To Assam
NDTV
The radical leader's associates were accompanied by a 27-member team from Punjab Police, including its Inspector General, Prisons.
In a highly unusual development amid the massive co-ordinated action against Khalistani separatist leader Amritpal Singh, four of his top arrested aides have been flown to Dibrugarh in upper Assam by a special aircraft, top police sources said. They will likely to be kept in the Dibrugarh Central Jail.
The radical leader's associates were accompanied by a 27-member team from Punjab Police, including its Inspector General, Prisons.
The Dibrugarh District Collector, and the local Superintendent of Police, received the team with high security at Mohanbari Airport.
Dibrugarh central jail is one of the oldest prisons in northeast India. It is heavily fortified, and was used to keep top militants during the peak of ULFA militancy in Assam.