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Why Amritpal chase is deja vu for Mumbai cops
Updated On: 26 March, 2023 10:51 AM IST | Mumbai | Gautam S Mengle
While the city’s Anti-Terrorism Squad has been immortalised for fighting the notorious D-gang, the mission for which it was set up had its roots in the migration of Punjab’s worst nightmare—the Khalistan movement—to Mumbai
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As the hunt for Amritpal Singh, head of Waris Punjab De, intensifies with the Punjab police spreading their dragnet far beyond the state’s borders, a group of people in Mumbai are following the ongoing developments closely. With each new revelation about how Singh is managing to stay ahead of authorities, the tactics employed by him are bringing back haunting memories from 1989.
On a December morning that year, Lakhmer Singh, a police sub-inspector with the Mumbai Traffic Police, was directing traffic at the Gandhi Nagar junction in Vikhroli when he saw a Gypsy idling at the traffic light, even though it had turned green. When he sent a constable to find out, the occupants of the jeep—four turbaned Sikhs with shawls draped over their shoulders, simply raised the shawls and showed the constable the AK 47 assault rifles underneath. The terrified constable ran back to report to Singh even as the Gypsy drove away. However, just as Lakhmer was making a frantic call to the control room, the vehicle returned. The four men stepped out, trained their guns and wordlessly shot the uniformed policeman down in broad daylight.
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