In Pics | 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh arrested in Punjab's MogaKhalistan sympathiser and radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who was absconding for over a month, was arrested by the Punjab Police from Rode village in the state's Moga district on the morning of April 23. Notably, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a leading figure of the Khalistan movement who was killed during Operation Blue Star (1984), was also born in Rode.
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'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh was arrested in Punjab's Moga on April 23. See Pictures
After 36 days of a cat-and-mouse chase between the Punjab Police and Amritpal Singh, the pro-Khalistan preacher was arrested on April 23 from the native village of the late Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. Credit: PTI Photo
Amritpal Singh, who had been running a 'separatist propaganda', was arrested from Rode village in Punjab's Moga district. He has been shifted to the Dibrugarh jail in Assam under the National Security Act (NSA). Credit: PTI Photo
The 'Waris Punjab De' chief reportedly addressed devotees in the Rodewal Gurudwara in Punjab's Moga on the morning of April 23, shortly before his arrest. Credit: PTI Photo
The Rodewal Gurudwara from where Punjab Police arrested Singh, in Moga, Punjab. Credit: PTI Photo