Khalistani leader used rehabilitation centers to recruit “human bombs”: report

Amritpal Singh is on the run after the major crackdown by the Punjab Police on Saturday.

Chandigarh:

Security agencies raised a red flag after intelligence inputs that pro-Khalistan activist Amritpal Singh was using de-addiction centers and gurdwaras to store weapons and prepare youths for suicide attacks, officials said on Sunday.

A thick dossier, prepared with inputs from various security agencies, claims that Singh, who returned from Dubai last year allegedly at the behest of Pakistan’s ISI and Khalistan supporters living abroad, was primarily involved in “Khadku Or was engaged in brainwashing the youth to become human bombs.

The self-styled fundamentalist preacher is on the run after the Punjab Police launched a massive crackdown on Saturday and arrested 78 members of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ led by him.

According to experts and officials monitoring the situation in Punjab, Pakistan, which is going through its worst economic phase and has lost all the wars fought against India, is trying to divert the attention of its people by placing puppets like Amritpal Singh inside India. Trying hard to remove.

During the ongoing investigation, several arms and ammunition manufactured by Amritpal Singh for the so-called Anandpur Khalsa Front (AKF) were seized. Police also seized uniforms and jackets, officials said, adding that the arms and ammunition seized from the radical Sikh preacher’s car had the “AKF” mark on it.

Officials said weapons were being illegally stored in several de-addiction centers run by ‘Waris Punjab De’ and a gurdwara in Amritsar.

Youths admitted in de-addiction centers were coaxed and pushed towards ‘gun culture’. Officials said they were being brainwashed to choose the path of terrorist Dilawar Singh, who acted as a human bomb and killed former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.

fundamentalist preachers attended”martyr’s gathering(memorial events) of slain terrorists where he dubbed them so-called “martyrs of the cult” and glorified the use of weapons.

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