How India’s Hunt for a Separatist Preacher Cut Off the Internet for 27 Million People
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Police in India’s border state of Punjab have been in pursuit of a fugitive Sikh separatist leader for several days — even cutting off mobile internet and text messaging services for the region’s more than 27 million people to prevent his supporters from gathering.
The self-styled preacher, Amritpal Singh, has called on his followers to revive a banned secessionist movement that fought to create an independent state called Khalistan for followers of the Sikh faith in Punjab in the 1980s and early 1990s.