Amritpal Singh has been on the run since last week.
Jalandhar:
Amritpal Singh, the radical Sikh preacher who has been on the run for a week, has a well-organized network to train recruits in his security force, with weapons training and target practice. widely spent, one of his arrested aides told police.
Punjab police arrested Tejinder Singh Gill, one of Singh’s bodyguards, who revealed how he trained recruits how to fire weapons.
According to him, Amritpal Singh formed a militia known as the Anandpur Khalsa Force. A makeshift shooting range has been built in his village, Jallupur Khera.
All bodyguards and members of the militia undergo weapons training and target practice, and they are ranked by seniority, he said.
Punjab police have found firearms training videos showing Amritpal Singh’s followers firing weapons in a forest.
Meanwhile, on the seventh day of the manhunt for Singh, Haryana Police said they had increased vigilance across the state and their staff had been placed on alert after his last location. We were tracked down in the Kurukshetra district.
However, the whereabouts of Amritpal Singh and his partner Papalpreet Singh are still unknown.
They are said to have been sheltered by a woman at her home in Kurukshetra district, Shahabad on March 19.
A senior Punjab police official said on Thursday: “As soon as we learned that he had sneaked out of Punjab, we immediately informed the other states.”
Haryana senior police officer Mamta Singh on Friday said there was no further information on where Amritpal had gone from Shahabad.
“So far, there is no other input. However, we are vigilant and monitoring,” Ms. Singh told PTI news agency by phone.
Last month, Amritpal Singh and his supporters, some wielding swords and guns, broke through a fence and stormed a police station on the outskirts of Amritsar, and clashed with police to demand the release of one of the women. preacher’s colonel.
Last week, Punjab Police launched a crackdown against Amritpal Singh and elements of his ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit.
However, Amritpal Singh opened the door to the police and escaped when his cavalry was stopped in Jalandhar district.
