Indian police have arrested the Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh in Rode village of Moga district of Punjab.

He is being shifted to Indian state Assam’s Dibrugarh, where eight of Khalistan leaders are already being held under the draconian law National Security Act.

Amritpal Singh openly supports the cause of Khalistan, the separatist movement calling for a separate homeland for people of Sikh faith. He is a staunch follower of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who started the Khalistan Movemnt in in 1982 and was killed in Operation Blue Star in 1984 by the Indian Army.