Police said on Monday they had arrested 114 people so far but Singh's whereabouts were unknown. theSun theSundaily Sikh india internetban AmritpalSingh news
Raman Singh holds a photo of Sikh organizer Amritpal Singh while protesting against the Indian government outside the Indian Consulate in San Francisco on March 20, 2023/AFPPix: Indian authorities extended a mobile internet blackout across a state of about 30 million people on Monday as police hunted a radical Sikh preacher.
Videos posted online, and independently verified by AFP, showed men smashing doors and windows at the Indian consulate in San Francisco after they broke down barricades set up outside the building. The US government “was reminded of its basic obligation to protect and secure diplomatic representation,“ the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement late Monday.
New Delhi also summoned the British high commissioner to India, Alex Ellis, on Sunday to voice its displeasure at the vandalism by Singh's supporters outside the Indian high commission in London.Punjab -- which is about 58 percent Sikh and 39 percent Hindu -- was rocked by a violent separatist movement for Khalistan in the 1980s and early 1990s in which thousands of people died.
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