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

Waris Punjab De head Amritpal Singh tied the knot with Kirandeep Kaur in February this year.

Amritpal Singh was on the run since March 18 when the Punjab Police made an unsuccessful attempt to arrest him in Jalandhar’s Shahkot area.

“We have quite a close relationship with the family of Kirandeep and they were quite upset in the UK when Kirandeep was not allowed to board a plane at Amritsar airport when she wanted to go to meet her parents. The family was also of the opinion that he must surrender to carry forward the legal battle…” said a villager requesting anonymity.

“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.