Punjab police has cancelled the leaves of all law enforcement officials withinside the nation until April 14 after radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh sought a assembly of the Sikhs later this month, stated sources.
Amritpal, who has been evading arrest because his supporters overran a police station over the arrest of one in all his aides, has requested the chiefs of the pinnacle Sikh frame, Akal Takht, to convene the “Sarbat Khalsa” amassing in Punjab`s Bathinda at the event of Baisakhi on April 14.
Until then, the leaves of all gazetted and non-gazetted officials were cancelled, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav stated in a message to the officials, in line with sources. All formerly sanctioned leaves stand cancelled and the heads were requested now no longer to sanction any clean go away until April 14.
The separatist’s attraction for the congregation got here in video messages that surfaced remaining month. He additionally requested the jathedars (chiefs of Akal Takht) to take out a non secular procession from the Akal Takht in Amritsar to Damdama Sahib in Bathinda beforehand of the collection on Baisakhi.
Only the Akal Takht leader can determine whether or not to name one of these congregation after consulting with Sikh students and intellectuals, pinnacle gurdwara frame Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) stated following Amritpal’s request.
“It is the private desire of Amritpal Singh. It is the only prerogative of the Akal Takht jathedar to name or now no longer name a ‘Sarbat Khalsa’. The jathedar could see what wishes to be finished beneathneath the triumphing circumstances,” SGPC wellknown secretary Gurcharan Singh Grewal advised information corporation PTI.
‘Sarbat Khalsa’ congregations have been known as most effective on different occasions – in 2015 and 1986. The remaining one become hung on February 16, 1986.
