The Punjab police on Monday said it has invoked the stringent National Security Act (NSA) against five people linked to radical preacher Amritpal Singh’s ‘Waris Punjab De’. Meanwhile, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said the state was on high alert and security was beefed up along the border with Punjab. Four of them are lodged Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam and the fifth person, Amritpal’s uncle Harjit Singh, will also be shifted there.

Punjab Inspector General of Police (Headquarters) Sukhchain Singh Gill said the Khalistani sympathiser was still on the run and efforts were on to nab him. He said the police have filed six FIRs and arrested 114 people in the crackdown against elements of Waris Punjab De.  Gill added that police suspect an “ISI angle” and foreign funding in the matter. The Punjab government extended the suspension of mobile internet and SMS services until Tuesday noon.