Amritsar: How officials stopped Amritpal Singh's wife Kirandeep Kaur from leaving India

AMRITSAR: The wife of fugitive Amritpal Singh was on Thursday prevented from boarding a flight to the UK from Amritsar’s Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport. She was questioned for "two hours", told categorically that she could not leave Jallupur Khera village without informing the police and then allowed to return there.
Amritpal's UK national wife Kirandeep arrived at the airport at around 11.40 am to board the Air India flight (AI 117) that was to depart for Birmingham from Amritsar at 2. 30 pm. As soon as the media persons got wind of this, they made a beeline to the airport and found her standing in the queue with her luggage trolley. Senior officials were already present there along with paramilitary forces, woman constables, anti-riot police and personnel from various intelligence agencies, indicating the possibility of her arrest.
According to reports, she was allowed to enter the airport where she passed through the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) security check, got her luggage scanned and went to the Air India’s counter and obtained her boarding pass, but was later stopped at the immigration counter for questioning and then handed over to police. As per another version, police arrested her after she entered the airport and took her to a separate room for questioning. There, she was quizzed for two hours by the immigration authorities, police as well as other central agencies.

According to sources, “It was decided to prevent her from leaving the country, and she was made to give an undertaking that she would not leave the country or her village without informing the police. ” After all this, Kirandeep exited the airport swiftly to avoid any interaction with the media.
While confirming that Kirandeep Kaur was not allowed to board the plane to Birmingham, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Am-ritsar, Rural, Satinder Singh said, “She was stopped for questioning and prevented from leaving the country; but the police neither detained nor arrested her."
Kaur had married Amritpal on February 10 at Jallupur Khera village gurdwara.
After this episode, questions are being raised as to why she was not stopped from leaving Jallupur Khera village, where police have put up nakas, and how did she reach the airport, over 50 km from the village. In Jallupur Khera, an uncle of Amritpal Singh who had gone to see off Kirandeep Kaur, said the police didn’t ask her any specific questions, or inform her why she was not allowed to fly out of the country.
Sukhchain Singh, Amritpal's uncle, said that it was almost an hour after Kirandeep had entered the airport that they came to know that she had been prevented from boarding the plane. “She was asked to sit on the side and asked some general questions. She was not allowed to board the plane despite being issued a boarding card,” he said.
Amritpal's uncle also said that they (police ) didn’t take any documents and returned her luggage, following which they returned to their village. He said Kirandeep still had one month left for her visa to expire. It had been alleged that Kirandeep was handling the foreign funding of Amritpal, but no case has been registered against her so far. As the news spread, a few supporters of Amritpal converged on the airport to protest against the police for preventing his wife from leaving the country.