Amritsar

Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh's wife, Kirandeep Kaur, was on Thursday "not permitted to travel" to the UK from Amritsar after Punjab Police detained her.

According to reports, Kirandeep Kaur was booked on an Air India flight, which was scheduled to take off at 2.30 pm from the Shri Guru Ram Dass International Airport here. She was supposed to travel to Birmingham by Air India Flight No. 117 scheduled at 14:30 hrs. At 12:20 hrs she reported to the immigration counters but since she had a Look Out Circular issued against her, immigration officials did not permit her to travel and detained her.

Punjab police have been on a hunt for Amritpal Singh since March 18, when he had gone absconding. Last week, the police claimed to have arrested Joga Singh, a close aide of the fugitive Khalistan sympathiser and radical preacher, from Sirhind in the Fatehgarh Sahib district.

He was arrested in a joint operation by Amritsar police rural and Hoshiarpur police.

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Papalpreet Singh, another close aide of the fugitive Amritpal Singh was brought to Assam's Dibrugarh Central Jail after his arrest earlier this month from Amritsar's Kathu Nangal area.