Chandigarh, Dec. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has said that the February 2023 attack by Amritpal Singh and his supporters at Ajnala police station was a 'show of strength' by them and demonstrated that the mobsters considered themselves above the 'rule of law', and threw a challenge to the sovereignty and integrity of the country.

"Besides this, they also exhibited their future intentions to take law into their own hands, just to achieve their own sense of justice, if they dis-concur with any act of government authority(ies) established under law," the high court bench of justice Surya Partap Singh observed while dismissing bail pleas from several supporters and aides of radical Sikh leader, Amritpal Singh, filed in connection...