{"id":342721,"date":"2023-03-28T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=342721"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:13:43","slug":"police-was-close-to-arresting-amritpal-singh-advocate-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/police-was-close-to-arresting-amritpal-singh-advocate-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Police was close to arresting Amritpal Singh: Advocate General"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Punjab-and-Haryana-High-Court-on-Amritpal-Singh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342722\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandigarh- Punjab Police was close to arresting fugitive Khalistani radical Amritpal Singh, the state&#8217;s Advocate General informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The high court was hearing a petition seeking his release, by a man who claimed that Amritpal Singh was in &#8220;illegal&#8221; custody in Jalandhar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Advocate General clarified that Amritpal Singh was not arrested and the police was trying its best to arrest him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Punjab is passing through a sensitive stage and national security is involved. As such, the arguments addressed should be limited to the contentions raised in the habeas corpus petition, &#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After hearing counsel for both the parties, Justice N.S. Shekhawat asked the petitioner&#8217;s counsel to show evidence that Amritpal Singh was in illegal custody of the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the state&#8217;s categorical stand was that Amritpal Singh had not been arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amritpal Singh has been evading arrest, changing his location and looks multiple times, since March 18 when the police launched a massive crackdown to arrest him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new video of Amritpal Singh with his aide Papalpreet Singh has surfaced, purportedly showing Amritpal Singh walking in a street in Delhi without a turban and wearing a mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh- Punjab Police was close to arresting fugitive Khalistani radical Amritpal Singh, the state&#8217;s Advocate General informed the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday. The high court was hearing a petition seeking his release, by a man who claimed that Amritpal Singh was in &#8220;illegal&#8221; custody in Jalandhar. The Advocate General clarified that Amritpal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":342722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16377,15755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342724,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342721\/revisions\/342724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/342722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}