Amritpal’s wife, Kirandeep, arrived at the airport around 11.40 am to board Air India Flight 117, which was to depart for Birmingham at 2.30 pm. As soon as the media got wind of this, they made a beeline to the airport and found her standing in the queue with her luggage trolley.
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Amritpal Singh’s wife Kirandeep Kaur detained at Amritsar airport before boarding London flight
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.
She was allowed to enter the airport where she passed through the CISF security check, got her luggage scanned and went to the Air India counter and obtained a boarding pass, but was later stopped at the immigration counter for questioning and then handed over to the police.