US-based Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the founding father of the banned Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), designated as a terrorist by the Authorities of India, has issued recent threats forward of Republic Day, studies information company ANI. The warning follows the circulation of viral photographs on social media depicting pro-Khalistani graffiti within the nationwide capital, carrying threats associated to the Republic Day parade on January 26. Based on ANI, the graffiti asserts that the banned SFJ goals to “avenge” the dying of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Nijjar was killed outdoors a Gurdwara in Surrey, Canada, on June 18 final yr by unidentified assailants. The Authorities of India declared Sikhs for Justice an ‘Illegal Affiliation’ on July 10, 2019.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, designated as a ‘designated terrorist’ on July 1, 2020, has been actively encouraging Punjab-based gangsters and youth by means of social media to assist the reason for Khalistan, difficult the sovereignty, integrity, and safety of the nation, ANI report mentioned citing NIA investigations. This isn’t the primary time Pannun has issued such threats in opposition to India.
Pannun Calls On Punjab Gangsters To Be a part of SFJ
Based on one other report by information company PTI, Pannun additionally issued a veiled risk to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and police chief Gaurav Yadav, urging gangsters within the state to affix the banned outfit Sikhs For Justice and stop high political leaders from attending the Republic Day parade.
Pannun in contrast Mann to former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh, who was assassinated in a bomb blast on August 31, 1995, in an electronic mail despatched to some journalists and two movies obtained by PTI. It’s to be famous that the banned terror group Babbar Khalsa Worldwide carried out the blast, which killed 17 others.
Pannun additionally equated Yadav, the director basic of Punjab Police, to assassinated police officer Gobind Ram, who was killed in a bomb blast in 1990.
Punjab Police officers, talking on situation of anonymity instructed PTI that Pannun and his organisation have issued threats prior to now as properly and all essential precautions have been taken to make sure “tight safety” for all VIPs within the state.
Based on the PTI report, in one among Pannun’s purported movies, he challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the Republic Day parade with out safety.
“I dare Modi to come back to Delhi with out safety. If you’re a preferred chief, come to Delhi on R-Day with out safety, and SFJ will avenge Shaheed Nijjar’s assassination by elevating the Khalistan flag,” he’s heard saying within the video, based on PTI.
Thwart Mann’s Flag Hoisting On Jan 26: Pannun
In one other video, Pannun urged Punjab gangsters to affix the SFJ, vote in a Khalistan referendum, and stop Chief Minister Mann from hoisting the tricolour on Republic Day, based on the PTI report.
The e-mail despatched to journalists, nevertheless, deviated barely from the movies, wherein Pannun, along with calling on Punjab gangsters to affix the SFJ, requested them to be recognised as “shaheeds” (martyrs), it added.
In December of the earlier yr, he threatened to assault Parliament on or earlier than December 13. In November 2023, Pannun urged Sikhs to not fly on Air India plane after November 19, claiming their lives might be in danger. He asserted that Air India wouldn’t be allowed to function on November 19.
In September 2023, amid tensions arising from a diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Pannun known as on Hindu-Canadians to depart Canada.
The Ministry of Exterior Affairs knowledgeable final yr that India has raised issues in regards to the threats issued by Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun with america and Canadian authorities.
Pannun has been on the NIA’s radar since 2019, with the anti-terror company registering its first case in opposition to him. He performed a big position in selling and commissioning terror acts, spreading worry and terror in Punjab and elsewhere within the nation by means of his threats and intimidation ways, based on NIA investigations.
Non-bailable warrants of arrest had been issued in opposition to Pannun by the NIA Particular Courtroom on February 3, 2021, and he was declared a ‘Proclaimed Offender (PO)’ on November 29, 2022.
Final yr, the NIA seized Pannun’s home and land in Amritsar, Punjab, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. These properties had been earlier connected following authorities orders in two separate circumstances. NIA investigations revealed that Pannun’s organisation, Sikhs for Justice, misused our on-line world to radicalise weak youth and incite them to have interaction in terrorist actions. It additionally emerged that Pannun was the principle handler and controller of the SFJ.