Amritpal shifted to Assam on Centre’s directive, to be in solitary confinement
The Hindu
The Punjab government has decided to shift pro-Khalistan propagator Amritpal Singh to a jail in Assam, more than 2,600 km away from Punjab, on the directions of the Centre, a senior government official said on April 23.
The Punjab government has decided to shift pro-Khalistan propagator Amritpal Singh to a jail in Assam, more than 2,600 km away from Punjab, on the directions of the Centre, a senior government official said on April 23.
The decision was taken to avoid any kind of jailbreak or protests if Singh was lodged in any prison in Punjab or Haryana.
Singh, the chief of Waris Punjab De (heirs of Punjab), who has been detained under the National Security Act (NSA), will be kept in solitary confinement in the Dibrugarh Central Prison in Assam. Nine other aides of Singh, who were arrested over the past 35 days, are also lodged in Dibrugarh jail and are being held in separate cells, the official said.
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The 1980 Act enables the administration to detain Singh for a year through executive orders, which could be extended also. Singh, who is wanted in at least six other criminal cases was detained under the NSA as the Act has the provision to move the detainee from “one place of detention to another place of detention, within the same State or in another State, by order of the appropriate government.” An official said that arresting him under any other criminal case would have required court’s permission.
“The possibility of a law and order situation in Punjab had Singh been kept in a jail in the State could not be ruled out. They could have incited other prisoners and could have planned a jailbreak,” said the official.
The probability of Singh and his aides radicalising other prisoners in jail and associating them to a militant group, Anandpur Khalsa Fauj (AKF), raised by him, was also factored in while moving them out of the State.
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