jallupur khera village

Police on Wednesday questioned absconding 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh’s wife Kirandeep Kaur and mother Balwinder Kaur at his native village Jallupur Khera near Amritsar.

Amritpal’s wife, Kirandeep, arrived at the airport around 11.40 am to board Air India Flight 117, which was to depart for Birmingham at 2.30 pm. As soon as the media got wind of this, they made a beeline to the airport and found her standing in the queue with her luggage trolley.

The Amritsar police searched the house of Waris Punjab De chief and pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh here on Saturday and asked his father Tarsem Singh to advise his son to surrender before the police.

Panic gripped residents of Amritsar and Gurdaspur following multiple explosions on Friday night, with no major damage reported. Power was temporarily cut off and restored early Saturday. Blasts were heard near Amritsar airport and Khasa area, prompting a police search for drone or missile debris.

The parole given to terror case convict Gurdeep Singh Khera raised hopes of the release of Bandi Singhs (Sikh political prisoners) on Sunday, even as many Sikh organisations did not connect Khera's parole with the ongoing agitation for the release of others imprisoned in similar cases.

The Punjab police, which launched its operation to arrest Khalistan sympathiser and Waris Punjab De outfit chief Amritpal Singh on March 18, is on the backfoot due to its failure to nab the radical self-styled preacher even after a week.

Radical Khalistani preacher and 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh's wife Kirandeep Kaur was on Thursday stopped from boarding a flight to London at Amritsar airport.

Within two weeks of shifting of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar to Amritsar from Delhi's Tihar jail, another terror convict Gurdeep Singh Khera was brought to the city jail from Karnataka's Gulbarga prison in the wee hours of Friday under tight security.

Police on Thursday claimed that an arrested bodyguard of Khalistan propagator Amritpal Singh had made "startling" disclosures about the latter's alleged "Khalistan plan".

A day after police launched a manhunt to nab pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh, his parents on Sunday said they did not believe the police's version that their son was on the run and that they feared for his life. They claimed that they were sure he is in police custody.

A little over one month after her marriage with Waris Punjab De (WPD) chief Amritpal Singh, currently on run, Kirandeep Kaur, 28, has also come under police radar and is being questioned not only about the whereabouts of her husband, but also about his future plans to fan the Khalistan fire and her own past.

Jallupur Khera (Amritsar): Self-proclaimed Sikh religious leader Amritpal Singh has threatened "statewide action" if police do not release his two associates and continue to pick up his followers.

A Punjab Police team visited fugitive Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh’s native village of Jallupur Khera, near Amritsar, on Wednesday and “spoke” to his wife of less than two months, Kirandeep Kaur, and mother Balwinder Kaur. The Waris Punjab De chief married UK-based Kirandeep on February 10.

The Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) has shared its concerns with Punjab Police about the suspicious activities of Dubai-returned Amritpal Singh, who was on September 29 anointed head of Deep Sidhu’s ‘Waris Punjab De’ organisation in Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s native Rode village

Punjab police inspector-general (headquarters) Sukhchain Singh Gill confirmed on Thursday that the police have questioned ‘Waris Punjab De’ head Amritpal Singh’s newly-wedded wife, Kirandeep Kaur and his mother Balwinder Kaur.

Payal police on Wednesday evening arrested a "gunman" of Khalistan advocate Amritpal Singh from his Mangewal village of Khanna's Malaud area and identified him as Tejinder Singh 'Gorkha Baba'.

A day after his arrest, Papalpreet Singh, a close aide of fugitive pro-Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, was flown from Amritsar to Assam’s Dibrugarh where he would be lodged in Central Jail.

A day after his arrest, Papalpreet Singh, an aide of pro-Khalistan fugitive Amritpal Singh, was flown from Amritsar to Assam’s Dibrugarh town to be lodged in the central jail there.