In a significant breakthrough, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police led by Commissioner of Police Swapan Sharma on Sunday arrested four persons including a key aide of Amritpal Singh for their involvement in the smuggling of illegal arms, drugs, extortion and others.
Notably, arrested accused Amritpal Singh Fauji, a resident of village Kasel in Tarn Taran, was on the run since August 2024, when his accomplice identified as Sartaj was arrested from Jammu Bus Stand with 33 kg of heroin.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday conducted raids at multiple locations in Punjab in connection with a March 2023 incident when pro-Khalistani supporters protested outside the High Commission of India in Canada's Ottawa.
In the case concerning Amritpal Singh, the Chief of Waris Punjab De, Advocate Amarjeet Singh announced that they filed a petition on Wednesday challenging the detention order issued under the National Security Act (NSA), with the next hearing scheduled for August 28.
Balwinder Kaur said that she wants to tell people they should speak out against whatever injustice takes place. She further said that the NSA had invoked Amritpal and that he should be released.
After a row erupted over Charanjit Singh Channi's statement on jailed MP Amritpal Singh, the Indian National Congress on Thursday said that the views expressed by him were his own.
Union Minister Hardeep Puri on Thursday reacted to Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi's remarks on "undeclared emergency" and jailed MP Amritpal Singh and said he doesn't know anything about the actual Emergency.
"On Channi's statement, I would only say that Indira Gandhi's assassin was a Khalistani and Congress is supporting Khalistani. Waah re Congress, Jai Channi. This is an attack on India's sovereignty. Action should be taken on this...Congress ka haath, Khalistanion ke saath," Giriraj said.<
Congress Lok Sabha MP and former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi triggered an uproar in Parliament on Thursday after he alleged that there is "undeclared emergency" under BJP-led government's rule and noted that "free speech" of the Waris Punjab De chief and Khadoor Sahib Lok
Jailed head of Waris Punjab De and Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha MP Amritpal Singh, who is lodged in a prison in Assam's Dibrugarh district under the National Security Act, challenged his detention under the NSA in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday.