After Nijjar, Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun's Amritsar, Chandigarh property seized
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The properties in Chandigarh, and Amritsar has been confiscated by the investigative agency couple of days after Pannun openly posted a hate video threatening Hindus to leave Canada.
Earlier in the day NIA's Mohali court also ordered the confiscation of property of a house belonging to slain Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, in BharsinghPura village of Jalandhar district. The investigative agency's move comes even as the diplomatic tension between India and Canada regarding the Khalistani extremism refusing to die down.
Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau has remained unfazed about his allegations of involvement of Indian intelligentsia in the killing of Nijjar, a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, while Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is yet to make an official statement. According to Hindustan Times report, A property confiscation notice pasted outside Pannun's residence at sector 15 in Chandigarh read, “1/4th share of house no.
#2033 Sector 15-C, Chandigarh, owned by Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, a 'proclaimed offender' in NIA case RC- 19/2020/NIA/DLI, stands confiscated to the state under section 33(5) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 by orders of the NIA special court, SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, Dated 14/09/2023. This is for information of general public." A similar notice was put up on the agricultural land belonging to Gurpatwant Singh Pannu in his ancestral village Khankot in Amritsar.
The central probe agency has confiscated 46 kanal of agricultural land belonging to Pannu in the village in relation to a terror case registered in 2020, the HT report noted. The video of Pannun surfaced days after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's explosive allegations on
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