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By India Today News Desk: Khalistani separatist Amritpal Singh, who was on the run since March 18, surrendered before the Punjab Police at a gurdwara in Rode village in Moga on Sunday. He was arrested, National Security Act invoked and flown to high-security Dibrugarh jail in Assam.
Amritpal Singh managed to evade arrest and slipped through a police dragnet several times even as his aides and members of the outfit ‘Waris Punjab De’ were detained.
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Eight of his aides – Daljeet Singh Kalsi, Papalpreet Singh, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, Varindar Singh, Gurmeet Singh Bukkanwala, Harjit Singh, Bhagwant Singh and Gurinder Pal Singh- were arrested and charged under the NSA. They are being held at the Dibrugarh central jail.
Here is a timeline of events from Amritpal’s anointment as chief of Waris Punjab De to the Punjab Police crackdown that culminated in his arrest today.
September 29, 2022: Amritpal Singh was anointed as the chief of Waris Punjab De, an outfit founded by actor and activist Deep Sidhu, at a dastar bandi (turban tying) ceremony in Moga’s Rode village, the ancestral village of slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
February 16: Amritpal and his supporters, including Lovepreet Singh Toofan, booked on charges of kidnapping and thrashing a resident of Chamkaur Sahib in Rupnagar district. A day later, Lovepreet Singh was arrested.
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February 23: Amritpal and his supporters, some of them brandishing swords and guns, break through barricades and barge into Ajnala police station on the outskirts of Amritsar city and clash with policemen, demanding the release of Lovepreet Singh.
February 24: Lovepreet Singh released from judicial custody.
March 18: The Punjab Police launches a massive crackdown against Amritpal and his aides. His cavalcade intercepted in Jalandhar but he manages to evade arrest by switching vehicles. Mobile internet services suspended in Punjab.
March 19: Daljeet Kalsi, Basant Singh, Gurmeet Singh Bhukhanwala, and Bhagwant Singh ‘Pradhan Mantri’, brought to the high-security Dibrugarh jail.
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March 20: Amritpal’s uncle Harjit Singh surrenders before police near a gurdwara in Mehatpur, Jalandhar.
March 21: Harjit Singh, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, and Gurinder Pal Singh taken to Dibrugarh jail.
March 22: A picture of Amritpal and his close aide Papalpreet Singh sitting on a motorised cart emerges on social media.
March 23: A woman who harboured Amritpal and Papalpreet at her house in Haryana’s Kurukshetra held.
March 25: Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh asks Amritpal to surrender before police.
March 27: Varindar Singh, a retired army constable, Amritpal’s bodyguard taken to Dibrugarh jail.
March 28: A massive operation to trace Amritpal Singh conducted in Hoshiarpur after some suspects abandon a vehicle following a police chase.
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March 29: A video of Amritpal surfaces online in which he calls for a ‘Sarbat Khalsa’ congregation on Baisakhi.
March 30: Another video and an audio clip of Amritpal surface in which he asserts that he would soon appear before the world.
April 10: Papalpreet, Amritpal Singh’s mentor who was allegedly in contact with Pakistan’s ISI, arrested from Kathunangal area in Amritsar and taken to Assam.
April 15: Amritpal’s another close aide Joga Singh, who provided shelter to the Khalistani separatist and Papalpreet in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit and brought them back to Punjab on March 28, was arrested from Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib.
April 20: Amritpal’s wife Kirandeep Kaur stopped from boarding a flight to London at the Sri Guru Ram Dass International Airport in Amritsar.
April 23: Amritpal arrested from Rode village in Moga and flown to high-security jail in Dibrugarh.
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