Fugitive pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh still on the run, manhunt on to nab him, says police
The Hindu
Authorities stepped up security at several places and suspended internet and SMS services in Punjab till Sunday noon
A manhunt was still on to nab radical Sikh preacher and Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, police said.
"He is now a fugitive and we are looking for him and we will soon arrest him," Jalandhar Police Commissioner Kuldeep Singh Chahal told reporters near Nakodar in Jalandhar late Saturday night.
Mr. Chahal said six to seven gunmen of Amritpal Singh have been arrested.
The Punjab Government had on Saturday launched a major crackdown against Amritpal, with police arresting 78 members of an outfit headed by him, officials said.
The elusive preacher himself, however, gave the police a slip and escaped their dragnet when his cavalcade was intercepted in Jalandhar district. As the operation went underway, authorities stepped up security at several places and suspended internet and SMS services in the State till Sunday noon.
Police on Saturday launched a "massive State-wide cordon and search operations (CASO)" in the State against the members of the ' Waris Punjab De' group, headed by Singh, against whom several criminal cases have been registered.
Seventy-eight persons have been arrested so far, while several others have been detained for questioning, they said.
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