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Amritpal boarded bus from Ambala, driver tells cops

Wanted Waris Punjab De Chief Amritpal Singh allegedly boarded a Haryana roadways bus from Ambala and got down at Kurukshetra’s Pipli, a roadways bus driver at Kashmere Gate told the Delhi and Punjab Police who are on the lookout for Singh.

Sources in the Delhi Police said that several units of the Special Cell have been assisting Punjab Police in ascertaining Amritpal’s whereabouts in the capital.

“We found a driver of a Haryana roadways bus in Kashmere Gate bus terminal and he informed us that Singh boarded his bus from Haryana’s Ambala and got down at Kurukshetra’s Pipli. Suspecting that Singh might have fled to , Punjabi Police had informed Delhi Police regarding the same, sources said.

A senior officer said both the driver and the conductor are being examined. “We are scanning CCTV footage around Kashmere Gate…we suspect that Singh was accompanied by an aide,” said the officer.

A lookout circular and a non-bailable warrant has been issued against Singh, an alleged pro-Khalistan leader who has been changing his hideouts and vehicles to evade arrest by the Punjab Police. Police had since March 18 launched a crackdown on Singh and his associates.

The police had earlier , from Haryana for allegedly providing shelter to Amritpal and his aide Papalpreet at her house in Kurukshetra’s Shahabad for a day where Amritpal changed his clothes.