Security officials said quoting intelligence inputs that Amritpal Singh was using drug de-addiction centers and a gurdwara for stockpiling weapons and preparing youths to carry out suicide attacks. A thick dossier prepared with inputs from various security agencies claimed that Singh, who returned from Dubai last year allegedly at the behest of Pakistan’s ISI and Khalistan sympathizers residing overseas, was mainly engaged in brainwashing youths to become “khadkoos” or human bombs.
The youths who were admitted in the de-addiction centers used to be indoctrinated and pushed towards the “gun culture”. They were being brainwashed to choose the path of slain terrorist Dilawar Singh, who acted as a human bomb and killed former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, the officials said.
The radical preacher used to attend “shaheedi samagam” (memorial events) of slain terrorists where he termed them so-called “martyrs of the Panth” and glorified the use of weapons.
