Indian authorities announce the arrest of Sikh separatist leader Amritpal Singh after searching for him for more than a month amid worries about a revival of an independent Sikh homeland
FILE - Amritpal Singh leaves the holy Sikh shrine of the Golden Temple along with his supporters, in Amritsar, India in early March.
"Amritpal Singh has been arrested from the Rode village in Moga district, Punjab on the basis of specific intelligence," Sukhchain Singh Gill, a top official of the Punjab police told reporters on Sunday. He was arrested in the village of Gurudwara, a Sikh temple, under the National Security Act, which allows for those deemed a threat to national security to be detained without charge for up to a year, the police official said.
He sports a similarly styled blue turban and long beard and reportedly travelled to the former Soviet republic of Georgia last year for cosmetic surgery to look more like his hero.
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