A roadside dhaba owner, originally from Punjab, was apprehended in Assam's Bongaigaon district under suspicion of having affiliations with the Khalistani movement, a senior police official confirmed on Monday.
Bongaigaon Superintendent of Police, Mohan Lal Meena, disclosed that the individual in question displayed a poster featuring Khalistani ideologue Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and others at his roadside establishment, situated near the Gerukabari outpost along National Highway-27.
"There is a photo of Bhindranwale. In another photo, a person is waving a flag similar to that of a Khalistani one. We are examining it," he said.
The person, identified as Gurmukh Singh from Tarn Taran district of Punjab, also kept a photo of slain controversial rapper Sidhu Moose Wala, Meena said.
Police picked him up on Sunday and are interrogating him at present, he added.
"He claimed that some truck drivers gave him the pictures. He might be a sympathiser, but we cannot say it at the moment," the SP said.
Singh used to drive trucks before COVID-19, but opened the dhaba after the pandemic, he added.
"We feel that he put up such kinds of posters in his dhaba to attract more truck drivers, a lot of whom are from Punjab. Otherwise, he would not have done such a foolish thing publicly in front of his dhaba," Meena said.
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