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| Amritpal Singh - Arrested in Punjab was sent to Assam Jail |
The acumen why Amritpal Singh and his aides accept been taken to the added end of the country is that North Indian jails are added acceptable to accept abyss associated with him or the agitator movement, sources said.
New Delhi: Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who has been on the run back March 18, was taken to Dibrugarh Axial Bastille hours afterwards he surrendered afore the Punjab badge today. Eight of his aides are already confined in the awful defended jail, which is amid the oldest and most-secure prisons in the northeast.
The acumen why Amritpal Singh and his aides accept been taken to the added end of the country is that North Indian jails are added acceptable to accept abyss associated with him or the agitator movement, sources said.
The accent barrier is addition acumen to anticipate the accused from abutting with added inmates and bastille staff, sources said, abacus that Dibrugarh is a actual defended prison. Furthermore, the bounded Sikh association is not affectionate to the Khalistan movement.
Dibrugarh Bastille has additionally never had a above bastille breach adventure in its about 170-year history, furthering its acceptability of actuality an acutely defended prison. The jail's area at the centre of Dibrugarh boondocks is additionally an advantage for authorities to stop any escape attempts, sources added, as against to a area on the outskirts of boondocks or alien areas.
Security about the bastille bounds has been adequate back March 19 back four assembly of the 'Waris Punjab De' (WPD) were brought in. Now, the bastille reportedly has 24-hour three-tier security.
"The bastille admixture has been amidst by Assam Police's aristocratic Black Cat Commandos, CRPF and added aegis personnel," an official told account bureau PTI.
Furthermore, bounded media letters affirmation that new CCTV cameras accept been installed in advanced of the beef captivation Amritpal Singh's aides, and adulterated cameras accept additionally been repaired or replaced.
A heavily-guarded accompany accomplished the bastille with Amritpal Singh from Dibrugarh airport at about 2.20 pm today from Bhatinda. Officials told PTI that a multi-tier aegis adjustment has been fabricated at the Axial Jail.
Constructed by the British in 1860, the bastille has a citizenry of 680 prisoners, as per the fortnightly bastille citizenry annal appear by the Assam government. Dibrugarh Bastille is currently the third best busy axial bastille in the state, surpassed alone by the axial jails in Guwahati and Tezpur. Dibrugarh Axial Bastille was additionally historically at the centermost of Assam's ULFA affront and several top leaders of the accumulation were confined there.
Earlier today, Punjab Badge Inspector General Sukhchain Singh Gill said Amritpal Singh would be taken to Dibrugarh beneath the National Aegis Act (NSA).
Intelligence agencies say Amritpal Singh has been sourcing weapons from Pakistan through its spy bureau Inter-Services Intelligence and aggravating to bisect Punjab on common lines. Amritpal Singh had been allegedly arch adolescent bodies appear "gun culture".
He and his assembly were appointed beneath several bent cases accompanying to overextension clash amid classes, advance to murder, advance on badge cadre and creating obstructions in the allowable acquittal of assignment by accessible servants.
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