Village of Amritpal Singh’s in-laws: Residents feel ‘harassment’ of wife led to surrender

“He (Amritpal Singh) should have surrendered in the very beginning because, in the last one month, several people without any criminal record were booked by the police and now they have become criminals because of providing him shelter. He did not realise that innocent people were facing police cases for helping him. But when it came to his own wife, he realised the problem and surrendered,” said another villager known to Kirandeep’s family.

“No doubt his wife is innocent, and he could not see her getting harassed…” said a woman in the village.

Meanwhile, residents of Nangal Ambia Khurd in Shahkot, from where Amritpal Singh first fled the police, said they were relieved following Amritpal Singh’s surrender.

“We are relieved today because our village had come to the limelight for the wrong reasons,” said a villager, adding that the granthi of the village gurdwara, Ranjit Singh, had told the police that Amritpal Singh along with four of his aides came to the gurdwara, had food, changed into normal attire from Nihang dress and left.