Chandigarh: Around seven months ago, a grand ceremony was held in Rode village in Punjab's Moga district to anoint radical preacher Amritpal Singh as the head of "Waris Punjab De", an organisation founded by actor-activist Deep Sidhu who died in a road accident in February last year.
Rode, the place chosen for the "dastarbandi" (turban-tying) event on September 29, 2022, happens to be the ancestral village of slain militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.
On Sunday morning, Amritpal Singh, the 29-year-old Khalistan sympathiser, was arrested from the same place more than a month after the Punjab Police launched a crackdown against him following the storming of the Ajnala police station by his supporters to secure the release of an arrested associate. (PTI)
