Police likely to raise bounty on Shaista Parveen; Why NSA against Amritpal Singh; more

Shaista Parveen, the wife of deceased gangster Atiq Ahmed, is an absconding accused in the Umesh Pal murder case. The state police had announced a reward of Rs 50,000 for information leading to her arrest and a massive search operation has been launched to nab her. As per sources, now the police are planning to raise bounty from Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh.

Following Khalistani separatist Amritpal Singh's arrest in Punjab’s Moga on Sunday, state IGP Sukhchain Singh Gill said the National Security Act (NSA) warrants issued against the Waris Punjab De Chief were executed. The NSA was invoked against Amritpal Singh after a massive crackdown by the Punjab Police that began on March 18, which prompted the Khalistani propagator to flee the cops. Last month, when the NSA was slapped against the "fugitive" Amritpal, the Punjab IGP said that the police had a strong suspicion of the involvement of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). It is alleged that Amritpal Singh was trying to train its own army - the Anandpur Khalsa Force (AKF) - on the lines of the Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF). "We have a very strong suspicion of an ISI angle," he had said, adding that the cops suspected a nexus of foreign funding.