Police in India’s northwestern state of Punjab, the country’s only Sikh-majority state, say they are on the hunt for a prominent voice in the separatist movement and have taken extraordinary steps to find him.
Punjabi police say they’re carrying out a “mega crackdown” to apprehend Amritpal Singh, dubbed a “self-styled preacher” in India’s English-language media. Police say he was able to “slip” away Saturday during an attempt to arrest him and a group of his followers. Officers have since made more than 100 “preventative arrests” of people they say were “attempting to disturb law and order.”
Officials have also restricted gatherings in some areas to
