Massive search on for Amritpal in Hoshiarpur
   Date :30-Mar-2023

Amritpal in Hoshiarpur  
 
 
HOSHIARPUR, 
PUNJAB Police has launched a massive search operation in a Hoshiarpur village and many adjoining areas following inputs that radical preacher Amritpal Singh and his aides could hiding there. There was heavy police deployment in and around the Marnaian village here where extensive search launched late on Tuesday night after some suspects abandoned their vehicle following a chase. “The search is going on, but we haven’t traced anyone yet,” said a police official from Hoshiarpur. He said, CCTV footage in the area was also being scanned.
A team of the counterintelligence wing of the Punjab Police on Tuesday evening chased a car from Phagwara after it suspected that fugitive Amritpal and his aides could be in that vehicle, police sources said.
Suspects, who are believed to be three to four in number, abandoned their vehicle near Gurdwara Bhai Chanchal Singh in Marnaian village here and fled, police sources said. A cordon and search operation was launched on Tuesday night in and around the village while checkposts and barricades were raised on the roads to nab the suspects.