The prison was used to keep ULFA militants during height of militancy in Assam. Both strategic & psychological factors involved in keeping high-profile prisoners like Amritpal there.
Congress’s Randeep Surjewala casts doubt on the chain of events leading to the Khalistani preacher's capture. Akal Takht jathedar had suggested Amritpal to surrender, Akali Dal asserts.
In a video message, Amritpal said he surrendered despite having several options. Police has rubbished his claims, say they had 'surrounded' the gurdwara he was in & was forced to come out.
Arrested under National Security Act, Amritpal was an unknown Sikh living in Dubai till August 2022. He had a mercurial rise on his return to India, becoming face of Khalistani movement.
After hiding from law for over a month, the Khalistani sympathiser surrendered in Moga on Sunday; he will be taken to a Dibrugarh jail, where other key aides are being held under NSA.
IG (headquarters) Sukhchain Singh Gill has rubbished all claims of Amritpal having 'surrendered', says Khalistani preacher was arrested by joint efforts of intelligence, police teams.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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