India launches hunt for Amritpal Singh, a 29-year-old Sikh preacher who has revived talk of an independent homeland that Sikhs call Khalistan
Police in northern Punjab state accuse Amritpal Singh, 29, of setting up a militia and claim they recovered guns from his home, but his father, Tarsem Singh, says hunt for his son is a"conspiracy."
Police in the northwestern state of Punjab, where Sikhs are in the majority, said they had arrested 114 supporters of the preacher, Amritpal Singh, 29, and claimed seizing 10 guns and 430 rounds of ammunition and other equipment. Top Punjab police officer Sukhchain Gill told the Reuters news agency that Singh had set up a militia called Anandpur Khalsa Fauj [or Anandpur Army of the Pure].
"We all are still slaves ... We have to fight for freedom," Singh said in the home village of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the Sikh insurgent leader killed in a 1984 Indian army operation. India's then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, sent the military into the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in 1984 to root out Bhindranwale and his supporters in a bloody episode that infuriated Sikhs around the world.
Media reported that Singh had spent a decade in Dubai working in his family's transport business before returning to India in September and taking over the leadership of a Sikh group Waris Punjab De, or heirs of Punjab.
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