New Delhi: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Wednesday carried out raids at premises of suspects at 14 places in Punjab and Haryana having hyperlinks with banned organisation Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), information company ANI reported. The probe company carried out the raids in coordination with Punjab and Haryana Police. The NIA motion was primarily based on inputs about among the suspects having hyperlinks with SFJ and its self-proclaimed Basic Counsel and designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
#WATCH | Nationwide Investigation Company is conducting raids on the premises of suspects at 14 places in Punjab and Haryana having hyperlinks to the outlawed ‘illegal Affiliation’, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ).
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The NIA raids come two days after it registered a case in opposition to Pannun and SFJ over their video messages threatening Air India passengers, PTI reported.
In his video clip, Pannun urged Sikhs to not fly on Air India planes on and after November 19 as he claimed there was menace to their lives in the event that they flew on Air India. Pannun additionally threatened that Air India wouldn’t be allowed to function globally.
“Pannun is the self-proclaimed Basic Counsel of the outlawed ‘illegal Affiliation’ SFJ, and is within the eye of the storm but once more following the discharge and circulation of video messages on varied social media platforms urging the Sikhs to not fly on Air India planes on and after November 19 claiming menace to their lives in the event that they flew on Air India,” an announcement issued by the NIA learn, based on the information company.
In one among his video messages, Pannun additionally issued a warning to the Authorities of India and mentioned “The Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport (IGIA) would stay closed on the nineteenth of November”, PTI reported.
A excessive alert was issued within the wake of Pannun’s messages and the safety companies swung into motion in Canada, India and sure different nations the place the Air India flights function.
A case was additionally registered in opposition to Pannun underneath Indian Penal Code and the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, PTI reported.