GUWAHATI: 'Waris Punjab De' chief Amritpal Singh was interrogated by a team of National Security Agency (NSA) officers in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, where he and his nine associates are lodged.
Pro-Khalistan leader Singh was transferred from Punjab and lodged in the Dibrugarh jail since April 23, the day he was arrested and taken into police custody in Rode village of Moga in Punjab.
The NSA officers arrived in Dibrugarh on Tuesday and questioned Singh inside the jail for over two hours, according to police sources.
Moreover, the radical leader’s nine other associates, who are also incarcerated in the Dibrugarh jail, were also interrogated by the NSA officers.
On Wednesday, a senior police officer revealed that while Singh was interrogated separately, his aides were also questioned later.
Besides Amritpal Singh, nine other associates, including his close aide Papalpreet and uncle Harjit Singh, have been lodged in Dibrugarh jail.
The nine close aides of Amritpal are Daljit Singh Kalsi, Papalpreet Singh, Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal, Varinder Singh Johal, Gurmeet Singh Bukkanwala, Harjit Singh, Bhagwant Singh, Basant Singh and Gurinderpal Singh Aujla. All of them have been lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam since March and charged under the stringent National Security Act.
Along with invoking the stringent National Security Act (NSA) on pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh, the Punjab Police has also registered eight cases on the radical leader and his associates. They were booked under several criminal cases related to attempt to murder, kidnapping, assault, extortion, illegal confinement, spreading disharmony among classes, attack on police personnel and creating obstructions in the lawful discharge of duty by public servants.
Since the incarceration of the Sikh radicals there, the security around the prison in Dibrugarh has been tightened. A multi-layer security ring has been deployed around the jail, even as the entire jail complex has been kept out of the bounds of the public. Besides several high-mast lights which have been put up, there is round-the-clock CCTV surveillance, with additional cameras installed. This was a revamp of the Dibrugarh jail, which is Assam’s second oldest prison built in 1857.
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