{"id":20378,"date":"2023-04-23T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T12:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/indian-police-arrest-radical\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T12:39:47","slug":"indian-police-arrest-sikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/indian-police-arrest-sikh\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian police arrest Sikh separatist after month-long hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian police have arrested Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh after searching for him for more than a month, a state police official said on Sunday, a move against the revival of an independent homeland in the state of Punjab bordering Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The rise of Singh, a preacher in the northwestern state of Punjab where Sikhs are in the majority, has revived talk of an independent Sikh homeland and stoked fears of a return to violence that killed tens of thousands of people in the 1980s and early 1990s during a Sikh insurgency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amritpal Singh has been arrested from the Rode village in Moga district, Punjab on the basis of specific intelligence,&#8221; Sukhchain Singh Gill, a top official of the Punjab police told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>The arrest of Amritpal Singh, 30 &#8212; who leads a group called Waris Punjab De (the heirs of Punjab)&#8211; comes after the self-styled preacher and hundreds of his supporters stormed a police station with swords and firearms, demanding the release of one of his aides. <\/p>\n<p>Police have accused Singh and his supporters of attempted murder, obstruction of law enforcement, and creating disharmony, and said he had been on the run since mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in the village gurudwara, a Sikh temple, under the National Security Act, which allows for those deemed a threat to national security to be detained without charge for up to a year, the police official said.<\/p>\n<p>Gill said he would be moved to Dibrugarh, in the state of Assam, where some of his associates are already in jail. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Manoj Kumar and Shivangi  Acharya; Editing by William Mallard and Kim Coghill)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/indian-police-arrest-sikh\/file-photo-amritpal-singh-leaves-the-golden-temple-along-with\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3M00S-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3M00S-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian police have arrested Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh after searching for him for more than a month, a state police official said on Sunday, a move against the revival of an independent homeland in the state of Punjab bordering Pakistan. The rise of Singh, a preacher in the northwestern state of Punjab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-20378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-top-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXNPEJ3M00S-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20545,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions\/20545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}