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In 2015, during Sarbat Khalsa, a biannual deliberative assembly of the Sikhs held at Amritsar, he read out the chargesheet of the militant Narain Singh Chaura, and at the end of this speech, he said that Khalistan was the only solution to all problems of Sikh community. His speech was against the then chief minister of Punjab Parkash Singh Badal for which he was arrested by the local police. In the same year, Papalpreet, along with his other Sikh activists, planned a protest at the premises of Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in Ludhiana. To stop the Sikh activists, local police arrested Papalpreet and other activists under section 107/151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
• Charged in Attempt to Murder
In 2019, Papalpreet and his associates had a feud with the drug peddlers in Punjab as Papalpreet was working against the drug peddlers for a very long time. During the fight, Papalpreet and his associates were arrested under IPC section 307 for an attempt to murder. However, Papalpreet said that at the time of the fight, he was sitting at his home and a false case was registered against him.
• Arrested in Four Criminal Cases
In 2023, the Amritsar Police charged four criminal cases against him. As per one of the cases, the Income Tax Department flagged him as High Risk-CRIU (Case Related Information Upload). According to the Income Tax Department, he did not submit his returns for the financial year 2019-20, and he had an unaccounted income of Rs 4.48 lakh in his account. Reportedly, while he was on a run in 2023, he left a bag with a woman named Baljeet Kaur at Shahabad in Kurukshetra, where Papalpreet and Amritpal had taken shelter for a day. Papalpreet had told the woman that someone would come to collect the bag. However, the local police recovered the bag from the woman and from the bag the Income Tax notice was also recovered.
• Helped Amritpal Singh in Escaping
On 21 March 2023, the National Security Act was invoked against absconding Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singh and his aide Papalpreet Singh. According to the media sources, Papalpreet was the mastermind behind Amritpal’s run. The Punjab Police identified Papalpreet and Amritpal escaping from different places in Punjab and Haryana through CCTV footages. On 10 April 2023, the Amritsar rural police arrested Papalpreet from Kathu Nangal in Amritsar, Punjab. Later, while talking about Papalpreet’s arrest to the media persons, a local police official said,
"He (Papalpreet) is the main associate of Amritpal Singh. He has been arrested from the Kathu Nangal area in Amritsar. Papalpreet has been detained under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) and six other cases have also been registered against him. Further legal action will be taken against him as per law.”
