Separatist Chief Recruited Human Bombs From Rehab Centres: Report

Amritpal Singh is on the run for the reason that Punjab Police launched an enormous crackdown on Saturday

Chandigarh:

Safety companies had raised a crimson flag after intelligence inputs steered that pro-Khalistan preacher Amritpal Singh was utilizing drug de-addiction centres and a gurdwara for stockpiling weapons and making ready youths to hold out suicide assaults, officers stated on Sunday.

A thick file ready with inputs from numerous safety companies claimed that Singh, who returned from Dubai final yr allegedly on the behest of Pakistan’s ISI and Khalistan sympathisers residing abroad, was primarily engaged in brainwashing youths to develop into “khadkoos” or human bombs.

The self-styled radical preacher has been on the run for the reason that Punjab Police launched an enormous crackdown on Saturday and arrested 78 members of the ‘Waris Punjab De’, headed by him.

Based on specialists and officers monitoring the state of affairs in Punjab, Pakistan, which goes via its worst financial part and misplaced all of the wars fought in opposition to India, is making an attempt its finest to divert consideration of its folks by planting stooges like Amritpal Singh inside India.

Through the ongoing investigation, a number of arms and ammunition meant for the so-called Anandpur Khalsa Entrance (AKF), a creation of Amritpal Singh, had been seized. Additionally, police confiscated uniforms and jackets, officers stated, including that the weapons and ammunition seized from the unconventional Sikh preacher’s automobile bore “AKF” marking on it.

The officers stated weapons had been illegally being stockpiled in a number of de-addiction centres run by the ‘Waris Panjab De’ and a gurdwara in Amritsar.

The youths who had been admitted within the de-addiction centres was once indoctrinated and pushed in the direction of the “gun tradition”. They had been being brainwashed to decide on the trail of terrorist Dilawar Singh, who acted as a human bomb and killed former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, the officers stated.

The unconventional preacher used to attend “shaheedi samagam” (memorial occasions) of killed terrorists the place he termed them so-called “martyrs of the Panth” and glorified the usage of weapons.

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