© Reuters. SUBMIT IMAGE: Amritpal Singh, an extreme Sikh leader, leaves the divine Sikh temple of the Golden Holy place in addition to his advocates, in Amritsar, India, March 3, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
BRAND-NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian authorities have actually detained Sikh separationist Amritpal Singh after looking for him for greater than a month, a state authorities authorities claimed on Sunday, an action versus the rebirth of an independent homeland in the state of Punjab surrounding Pakistan.
The surge of Singh, a preacher in the northwestern state of Punjab where Sikhs remain in the bulk, has actually revitalized broach an independent Sikh homeland and also fed anxieties of a go back to physical violence that eliminated 10s of hundreds of individuals in the 1980s and also very early 1990s throughout a Sikh revolt.
” Amritpal Singh has actually been detained from the Rode town in Moga area, Punjab on the basis of details knowledge,” Sukhchain Singh Gill, a leading authorities of the Punjab authorities informed press reporters.
The apprehension of Amritpal Singh, 30– that leads a team called Waris Punjab De (the successors of Punjab)– follows the so-called preacher and also thousands of his advocates stormed a police headquarters with swords and also weapons, requiring the launch of among his assistants.
Authorities have actually implicated Singh and also his advocates of tried murder, blockage of police, and also developing disharmony, and also claimed he had actually gotten on the run because mid-March.
He was detained in the town gurudwara, a Sikh holy place, under the National Protection Act, which permits those considered a hazard to nationwide safety to be apprehended without cost for approximately a year, the authorities authorities claimed.
Gill claimed he would certainly be relocated to Dibrugarh, in the state of Assam, where several of his partners are currently behind bars.
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