Amritpal’s wife prevented from going to UK

 

 

FUGITIVE radical preacher Amritpal Singh’s wife Kirandeep Kaur was stopped from boarding a flight to London at the Sri Guru Ram Dass International Airport here, sources said on Thursday. She was questioned by the immigration authorities and some other officials for more than three hours and thereafter, asked to return along with some relatives who had come to see her off at the airport. Singh married Kaur, a UK-based Non-Resident Indian, on February 10.

Kaur, who is a British citizen, reached the airport at around 12 noon to board the flight to London but was stopped by the immigration staff and later, the Punjab Police was informed.

According to reports, she was stopped at the airport as there was a lookout circular (LoC) issued against her, however, there was no official word on it. Punjab Police officials too refused to share any information about the incident.

The Air India flight for London took off at its scheduled time of 1.20 pm. Kaur was going to the UK for the first time after her marriage.