India, April 23 -- In a swift transition of legal custody, the Punjab Police on Thursday formally arrested Waris Punjab De chief and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh in connection with the 2023 Ajnala police station attack. The arrest was executed immediately after his detention under the National Security Act (NSA) expired on April 22.

Following the arrest, a court in Assam's Dibrugarh sent the radical Sikh preacher to a two-day police remand.

An Amritsar Rural police team, led by a DSP-rank officer, had been camping in Dibrugarh since April 19 to complete the formalities following the Punjab and Haryana high court's recent nod to proceed with the trial.

The high court permitted the state government to keep Amritpal lodged at the high-...