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RADICAL preacher and leader of Waris De Punjab outfit, Amritpal Singh surrendered in Punjab's Moga this morning after over a month-long chase by the police. He was arrested from the Gurdwara, officials said. 

According to reports on the whole incident, the radical preacher Singh addressed a gathering at a Gurdwara in Rode village of Moga district before surrendering.

“The Punjab Police have arrested him,” a senior police official said. Police further said he would be sent to Assam's Dibrugarh jail. “He is an NSA subject and will be taken to Dibrugarh,” said the officer. The Punjab Police has already invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against the Khalistan sympathiser.

Moga is the native village of Khalistani separatist and terrorist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale popularly called “Sant” by rural masses in the state. The rural people from Rode and other Moga villages still idolise Bhindranwale and view him as “one of their own”. Moga is also home to Buddh Singh Wala, the native village of extremist Gurjant Singh, the former chief of the Khalistan Liberation Force who allegedly assassinated some policemen after his grandfather was killed in extrajudicial killings in 1984. 

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Bhindranwale’s village again shot into the limelight on September 29, 2022, when Amritpal, dressed like the slain militant leader, officially took over as chief of WPD, and his “dastaar bandi” ceremony was held in the presence of the former’s family members and other villagers. He also delivered an address near the gurdwara built in the slain militant’s memory, sending ripples across police and intelligence authorities about the arrival of “Bhindranwale 2.0”

Meanwhile, Singh had been on the run since March 18 when a police crackdown was launched against him and his aides. 

He and his associates were booked under several criminal cases related to spreading disharmony among classes, attempting to murder, attacking police personnel, and creating obstructions in public servants' lawful discharge of duty.