- Advertisement -
Kathmandu, Nepal, April 11, 2023: The entry of the Indian security personnel in Nepali territory on the name of searching its fugitive criminal has become a matter of widely raised concern in Nepal after it has come to know that a team of Indian Police came to Nepal before April 3 through Birganj of Parsa and Jamunah in Banke border area.
It is said that a six-member team from the Intelligence Bureau of India has come to Nepal under the leadership of Nagesh Chaudhary to search for Amritpal Singh believing that he would be hiding in Nepal with the motive to escape in other countries.
As the Indian Police have been launching a manhunt for Khalistan separatist leader Amritpal Singh, teams of Indian Police are reportedly in Nepal to find the separatist leader.
It is said that recent arrest of Palpreet Singh, a close aide of Amritpal, from Punjab of India had left clue to the Indian police that Amritpal would have snaked in Nepal through the border with motive either to launch its activities from Nepal or to flee in other countries.
Amritpal along with Papalpreet are wanted in the Ajnala violence case registered at the Ajnala police station on February 25.
Neither the government nor the security authority concerned, however, have spoken out about the entry of Indian police in Nepal even though the issue is raised from street to parliament.
Earlier, Indian embassy in Kathmandu had formally urged the Nepal government to help to arrest Amritpal Singh. Following the request, the Department of Immigration had alerted to the securities agencies to increase vigilance in border points.
Spokesman for Nepal Police, DIG Posh Raj Pokharel has said that the security agencies are looking for Amritpal. However, he did not elaborated about the widely raised concerns that Indian security forces had entered in Nepal.
Meanwhile, a lawmaker of the main opposition CPN-UML Raghuji Panta has raised the issue in the parliament stating that the entry of Indian security forces into Nepal in their bid to search for separatist leader Amritpal Singh is not only India’s distrust towards Nepal’s security mechanism but the violation of low of the land.
Since the Nepal is a sovereign country and it does enjoy its right to self-determination, the laws of Nepal do not allow any foreign security force to enter the country and launch a search operation, Panta said while speaking on Monday's meeting of the House of Representatives.
