'I dare Modi...': Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun issues fresh threats ahead of Republic Day 2024
India Today. ALSO READ: Justin Trudeau sees ‘shift’ in Canada-India ties after Pannun murder allegations: ‘Attacks aren’t going to…' Apart from this, several photos pro-Khalistani graffiti reportedly painted across New Delhi threatening to 'avenge' the death of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar surfaced on social media. Earlier on June 2023, Nijjar was killed outside a Gurdwara in Canada's Surrey. According to details, Pannun has been actively exhorting gangsters and young people over social media to stand for Khalistan.
Declared a 'designated individual terrorist' by the Centre in 2020, the Sikh For Justice (SFJ) founder has issued such threats against India in the past, too. In December 2023, Pannun released a video in which he threatened to attack Parliament on or before December 13, the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attacks. He in November 2023 too, urged the Sikh community not to fly on Air India after November 19, as their lives could be under threat.
Following this, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case against him over the Air India threat video. Amid tensions over the diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killing of Nijjar, he in September asked Hindu Canadians to leave Canada. In 2019, the government banned the SFJ as an "unlawful association" citing its involvement in "anti-national and subversive" activities.
Since then Pannun has been on NIA's radar, as the probe agency lodged its first case against the terrorists. Non-bailable warrants were issued against Pannun by the NIA Special Court on February 3, 2021, and he was declared a 'Proclaimed Offender (PO)' on November 29, 2022. Meanwhile, the US authorities indicted an Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, for his
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