India hunts Sikh preacher who has revived calls for homeland

Sikh militants complaining of unfair treatment on the part of the central government began agitating for a separate homeland in the 1970s.

Indian police have launched a hunt for a Sikh preacher who has revived talk of an independent Sikh homeland and stoked fears of a return to violence that killed tens of thousands of people in 1980s and early 1990s.