Intelligence businesses say Amritpal Singh has been sourcing weapons from Pakistan. (File)
New Delhi:
Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who has been on the run since March 18, was taken to Dibrugarh Central Jail hours after he surrendered earlier than the Punjab police in the present day. Eight of his aides are already imprisoned within the extremely safe jail, which is among the many oldest and most-secure prisons within the northeast.
The explanation why Amritpal Singh and his aides have been taken to the opposite finish of the nation is that North Indian jails usually tend to have gangsters related to him or the separatist motion, sources stated.
The language barrier is one more reason to stop the accused from connecting with different inmates and jail workers, sources stated, including that Dibrugarh is a really safe jail. Moreover, the native Sikh neighborhood isn’t sympathetic to the Khalistan motion.
Dibrugarh Jail has additionally by no means had a significant jail break incident in its almost 170-year historical past, furthering its status of being an especially safe jail. The jail’s location on the centre of Dibrugarh city can also be a bonus for authorities to cease any escape makes an attempt, sources added, versus a location on the outskirts of city or distant areas.
Safety across the jail premises has been strengthened since March 19 when 4 members of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ (WPD) had been introduced in. Now, the jail reportedly has 24-hour three-tier safety.
“The jail compound has been surrounded by Assam Police’s elite Black Cat Commandos, CRPF and different safety personnel,” an official informed information company PTI.
Moreover, native media reviews declare that new CCTV cameras have been put in in entrance of the cells holding Amritpal Singh’s aides, and malfunctioning cameras have additionally been repaired or changed.
A heavily-guarded convoy reached the jail with Amritpal Singh from Dibrugarh airport at round 2.20 pm in the present day from Bhatinda. Officers informed PTI {that a} multi-tier safety association has been made on the Central Jail.
Constructed by the British in 1860, the jail has a inhabitants of 680 prisoners, as per the fortnightly jail inhabitants information launched by the Assam authorities. Dibrugarh Jail is presently the third most populated central jail within the state, surpassed solely by the central jails in Guwahati and Tezpur. Dibrugarh Central Jail was additionally traditionally on the heart of Assam’s ULFA insurgency and several other prime leaders of the group had been imprisoned there.
Earlier in the present day, Punjab Police Inspector Basic Sukhchain Singh Gill stated Amritpal Singh can be taken to Dibrugarh underneath the Nationwide Safety Act (NSA).
Intelligence businesses say Amritpal Singh has been sourcing weapons from Pakistan by way of its spy company Inter-Companies Intelligence and attempting to divide Punjab on communal traces. Amritpal Singh had been allegedly main younger individuals in the direction of “gun tradition”.
He and his associates had been booked underneath a number of felony instances associated to spreading disharmony amongst courses, try and homicide, assault on police personnel and creating obstructions within the lawful discharge of responsibility by public servants.
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