New Delhi: Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh’s wife Kirandeep Kaur was stopped at the Amritsar airport Thursday while she was about to board a flight to London.
Kaur was being questioned by the immigration department, news agency ANI said.
Airport sources said Kaur was to take an Air India flight to Birmingham scheduled at 2.30 pm. She was stopped at the immigration counters around 12.20 pm as she is the subject of a look-out circular, they said.
The self-styled Sikh preacher, who is on the run, married the UK-based NRI on 10 February in a simple ceremony at Jallupur Khera, his village in Amritsar.
Singh has been a fugitive from law since 18 March when he slipped out of a police dragnet in Jalandhar — spread to crack down on him and his “Waris Punjab De” outfit.
His mentor and fellow fugitive Papalpreet Singh, who accompanied Singh inter-state, was arrested from Hoshiarpur on 10 April.
In a recent breakthrough in the continuing hunt for Singh, the Punjab Police last Saturday arrested another close aide, Joga Singh, from Sirhind in Fatehgarh Sahib.
Six criminal cases have been lodged against the radical preacher in a span of one year, ranging from attempted murder to kidnapping.
The latest was after he stormed a police station on 24 February — along with his supporters who brandished swords and other weapons — to free a fellow radical preacher.
The stringent National Security Act (NSA) has also been invoked against Singh, the Punjab government told the state’s high court two days after he escaped.
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