Starting 2020, NIA probing six cases against pannun
NIA) is probing six cases against Sikhs For Justice counsel Gurupatwant Singh Pannun and have attached three immovable properties in Amritsar, said official adding the a red corner notice against him has been withdrawn after he appealed. United States department of justice is probing murder plot against Pannun involving Indian government official and recently indicted a former government official for murder for hire.
According to official, Pannun first came under the scanner of Indian security agencies in 2015. This was when he started raising 'Referendum 2020' among Sikh diasporas. Around the same time, there was revival of pro-Khalistan elements in Punjab, with gangs allegedly involved in extortion and killing of religious and political leaders.
Pannnun, along with other pro-Khalistan groups, was at the forefront of propaganda on social media, following which the home ministry in 2019 banned SFJ and a year later designated Pannun as a terrorist under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. After the DoJ indictment of an Indian national, the foreign ministry, however, announced the setting up of a committee to probe the allegations.
The National Investigation Agency registered the first FIR against him before designating him as an individual terrorist in 2020. The second was registered against him under UAPA, following the 2020 farmers' protest. NIA examined several protesters in the case as witnesses in January 2021. An NIA court last September ordered seizure of two properties belonging to Pannun Amritsar
