The hunt for Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh has entered its fifth day; the NSA has been called in against the fugitive; and the Punjab government has been chastised by the High Court for 'intelligence failure'. The police have recovered from the Jalandhar Cantonment area the motorcycle on which Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh fled Saturday, Jalandhar Range DIG told The Indian Express on Wednesday. Even as multiple versions of the “police giving a chase” to radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh are already doing the rounds, a new report has emerged stating that the Waris Punjab De chief visited the gurdwara at Nangal Ambian village in Jalandhar district around 1 pm on March 18, the day the police cracked down on him and his aides, and spent around 45 minutes there. Meanwhile, Advocate General Vinod Ghai Tuesday informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the state has invoked National Security Act against the self-styled Sikh preacher. The HC was hearing a habeas corpus petition requesting the court to direct the respondents to produce Amritpal before it. The court also pulled up the state government for failing to arrest Amritpal Singh, despite having an 80,000-strong police force. If he did give them the slip, it amounted to intelligence failure, the HC noted. Tthe Uttarakhand police on Tuesday conducted a combing operation at gurdwaras, hotels and areas on the Indo-Nepal border in Udham Singh Nagar district in search of Amritpal and his associates, PTI reported. The police kept searching for these criminals across the district, the news agency quoted city Superintendent of Police Manoj Katyal as saying. Following information from their Punjab counterparts that Singh and his associates were trying to flee the country, the police launched a search operation in Uttarakhand, he added.
