Jalandhar, March 23
Six days after the operation to nab him began from Harike and traversed through the hinterland in Doaba, pro-Khalistan activist Amritpal Singh has managed to escape to Haryana. Keeping the police on their toes for the past six days, he eluded the cops at every step and have left the police with a trail of arrests, vehicle recoveries and FIRs across Jalandhar, yet no trace of him.
In Doaba, at least five FIRs were lodged against Amritpal or his associates barring the NSA case.
The arrests
While Amritpal’s Chacha (uncle) Harjeet Singh and driver Harpreet Singh surrendered to Amritsar police and were arrested by them on Monday, Harjeet Singh was booked under NSA and also for threatening a village sarpanch at Udhowal.
On Wednesday, four more people who aided Amritpal’s escape from the Nangal Ambian village village in Jalandhar, were arrested. The four men arrested from Shahkot include Manpreet Singh alias Manna, Gurdeep Singh alias Deepa, Gurbhej Singh alias Bheja and Harpreet Singh alias Happy. Manpreet, Harpreet is a resident of Kotla Naudh Singh in Hoshiarpur; Gurbhej is a resident of Faridkot and Gurdeep is a resident of Nakodar. As per the police, these four people provided the Splendour and Bullet motorcycles (recovered today) in which Amritpal escaped.
Two more people were arrested for providing him with a Platina bike to escape - they include Gaurav Gora, resident of Nakodar and Sukhdeep Singh, resident of Shahkot.
Cases against Amritpal, his aides
Cars, bikes used to flee
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