Amritpal Singh's wife, fleeing to U.K., detained at Amritsar airport
The Hindu
Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh’s wife, Kirandeep Kaur, was “not permitted to travel” to the U.K. from Amritsar after Punjab Police detained her.
Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh's wife, Kirandeep Kaur, was on April 20 "not permitted to travel" to the U.K. from Amritsar after Punjab Police detained her, airport sources said.
Kirandeep Kaur was booked on an Air India flight, which was scheduled to take off at 2.30 p.m. from the Shri Guru Ram Dass International Airport in Amritsar.
According to airport sources, Kirandip Kaur, wife of Amritpal Singh and a U.K. national was supposed to travel to Birmingham by Air India Flight No. 117 scheduled at 14:30 hrs. At 12:20 hrs she reported to the immigration counters but since she had a Look Out Circular issued against her, immigration officials did not permit her to travel and detained her, the sources said.
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Ms. Kaur was stopped from boarding her flight.
Earlier police sources said that she was stopped by Immigration Department officials from boarding the flight.
"Amritpal Singh's wife Kirandeep Kaur has not been detained yet. The Immigration Department is questioning her," a Punjab Police source said earlier.
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.