Pro-Khalistani separatist Amritpal Singh surrenders

Kathmandu: Radical preacher and pro-Khalistan separatist Amritpal Singh has surrendered before Punja Police on Sunday.

Singh has surrendered before the Police on Sunday in Punjab’s Moga, the Indian media reported. He was on the run since March 18 after the Punjab police launched a crackdown following the storming of the Ajnala police station by his supporters to secure the release of an arrested associate.

The police have begun the process to move him out of Moga. He will be moved to Dibrugarh in Assam where eight of his associates, including main aide Papalpreet Singh, are already being held under the National Security Act, which allows detention up to a year without any charge.

His wife Kirandeep Kaur was also stopped at the Amritsar airport by immigration officials today while she was trying to board a flight to London. Amritpal Singh married UK-based Kirandeep Kaur in February this year.

In February, Amritpal and his supporters barged into the Ajnala police station near Amritsar, extracting an assurance that an arrested man would be released.

Since then Singh, who claims to be a follower of the Khalistani separatist and terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, has been labelled as a pro-Khalistan and the Punjab police launched a crackdown following the storming of the Ajnala police station.