- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
India has requested its northern neighbour Nepal not to allow fugitive radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who has escaped the country’s police after they launched a manhunt on March 18 and is believed to be hiding in the Himalayan nation, to flee to a third country.
It has also arrested the neighbouring country to arrest Singh if he tries to escape using an Indian passport or any other fake passport, a media report said on Monday (27).
In a letter sent to Nepal’s department of consular services on Saturday (25), the Indian embassy in Kathmandu requested the government agencies to arrest Singh if he tries to flee from Nepal, The Kathmandu Post newspaper reported.
“Singh is currently hiding in Nepal,” the paper said, citing a copy of the letter obtained by it.
“The esteemed ministry is requested to inform the department of immigration not to permit Amritpal Singh to travel through Nepal for any third country and arrest him if he attempts to escape from Nepal using Indian Passport or any other fake passport under intimation to this mission,” it said.
The letter and Singh’s personal details have also been circulated to all the concerned agencies from hotels to airlines, the paper said, citing multiple sources.
Singh, who is said to be possessing multiple passports with different identities, has been on the run since the police launched a crackdown against him.
The elusive preacher gave the police the slip and escaped their dragnet when his cavalcade was intercepted in Jalandhar district of the northern Indian state of Punjab.
(With PTI inputs)
