After registering a case below numerous penal provisions, inclusive of India`s anti-terror law, in reference to the protest outdoor the Indian High Commission in London through pro-Khalistan companies on March 19, the unique mobileular of Delhi Police has all started a probe to perceive the humans involved, officers acquainted with the case stated on Monday.
A senior Delhi Police officer stated that they may be reviewing pix and video photos of the protest. “In a number of the pix and videos, pro-Khalistan humans are visible trying to tug down the Indian flag, which become rescued through the Indian safety personnel. Besides alerting our intelligence officials in Punjab and different locations to accumulate greater details, we’ve commenced figuring out the agitators to take prison motion in opposition to them,” he stated, asking now no longer to be named.
A first statistics record (FIR) withinside the matter,which invoked provisions of the Indian Penal Code, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, become registered on March 24on the guidelines of the Union domestic ministry, which requested police to take prison motion on the premise of a record acquired from the outside affairs ministry approximately the protest on March 19.
The protest in London started out hours after Punjab Police released a statewide manhunt in opposition to pro-Khalistani separatist preacher Amritpal Singh and his followers, arresting almost a hundred humans after postponing cellular net and textual content messaging offerings throughout the state. Amritpal, who become accused in 8 FIRs of abduction, inciting violence and annoying social harmony, is connected to the Khalistani secessionist motion and is leader of Waris Punjab De.
The officer quoted above stated that prima facie, it seems that the protestors had been companies of humans — Indian passport-holders residing withinside the United Kingdom and everlasting UK citizens of Indian origin. “In case of Indian passport-holders, we`ll tell the government in London and difficulty a look-out circular (LOC) in opposition to them and arrest them. For everlasting UK citizens, we`ll ask the British authorities to extradite them to India. We`ve already invoked provisions of UAPA associated with motion on overseas soil that threaten the safety and sovereignty of India and that harm or damage belongings in another country used for any functions of the Indian authorities or its agencies,” he stated.
Another officer stated that sleuths were deployed at special public locations like airport, railway stations, bus terminals and Metro stations withinside the Capital. “We have acquired inputs that a few buddies of Amritpal were seeking to visit Nepal through Delhi. We are on alert ever given that Punjab Police knowledgeable us that Amritpal, withinside the guise of a sadhu (monk), had boarded a bus overdue on March 20 and deboarded close to Peepli at the Rajasthan-Haryana border in Jhunjhunu district the following morning. We additionally registered a case at Indira Gandhi International Airport police station on Friday after a passenger on the airport allegedly acquired a threatening voice note, in which someone pointed out getting rid of the countrywide flag at Pragati Maidan,” the officer stated.
He additionally stated that ultimate week, one Daljit Singh Kalsi, a near aide of Amritpal become arrested from Gurugram at the commands of the National Investigation Agency.
“He had left his house in Punjabi Bagh region in 2016. He got ₹35 crore from overseas withinside the ultimate years and his telecellsmartphone statistics display that he made more than one calls to Pakistan. Kalsi, who’s taken into consideration to be Amritpal`s fundraiser, is many of the seven humans taken into custody and shifted to Assam`s Dibrugarh during the last week,” stated the second one officer.
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