Amritpal Singh's Associate Served Notice Over "Unaccounted" Income

Papalpreet has been on the run along with Amritpal since the Punjab Police launched a crackdown on March 18.

Papalpreet Singh, the brain behind radical preacher and pro-Khalistan supporter Amritpal Singh, has been served a notice by the Income Tax department to explain the source of Rs 4.48 lakh credited into his account, officials said here on Friday.

Papalpreet, who has been on the run along with Amritpal since the Punjab Police launched a crackdown on March 18, faced the I-T department action under section 147 of the Income Tax Act, under which an assessing officer has discretionary powers to reopen the proceedings when there are reasons to believe that some of the income has escaped assessment.

The Income Tax notice was recovered from the house of Baljeet Kaur at Shahabad in Kurukshetra in Haryana where Papalpreet and Amritpal had taken shelter on March 19 and 20 before fleeing from there after changing their looks and leaving behind the sacred "Siri Sahib", the officials said, adding a devout Sikh would not leave behind his kirpan.

Papalpreet and Amritpal had told the woman that "someone would be collecting the bag" left behind by them, but the plan failed as the Haryana Police raided the house and recovered it.