New Delhi:
Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun – whose properties in Chandigarh and Amritsar had been seized final week – “needs to create many nations (by) dividing India”, sources informed NDTV Monday.
In accordance with the Nationwide Investigation Company’s file on Pannun, the pinnacle of the banned separatist group Sikhs for Justice “has challenged the unity and integrity of India by audio messages” and “needs to create a separate nation for individuals of Kashmir… and create a Muslim nation”.
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Pannun has been needed by the NIA since 2019 for enjoying a serious position in selling and commissioning terrorist acts to unfold worry throughout Punjab and the nation. Investigations have additionally revealed the Pannun-led Sikhs For Justice “misuses our on-line world to radicalise gullible youth… instigates them to undertake terrorist actions and combat for an impartial state of Khalistan”.
In 2019 the Indian authorities banned Sikhs For Justice.
In July 2022 the Union House Ministry declared Pannun a terrorist however Interpol twice rejected the Indian authorities’s request to problem a Purple Nook Discover, citing inadequate data.
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Extra lately, he threatened senior Indian diplomats and authorities functionaries in Canada amid the huge diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killing of one other Khalistani terrorist – Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has kicked up a global combat after claiming “brokers” of the Indian authorities killed Nijjar, who was a Canadian citizen.
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India has firmly, unequivocally and absolutely denied the fees.
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Who Is Gurpatwant Singh Pannun?
Pannun – additionally the first accused over the looks of ‘Khalistan’ banners and graffiti on the partitions of the Himachal Pradesh Meeting final yr – got here to Amritsar in 1947, through the partition.
His household is known to be from a village referred to as Khankot in Pakistan. Gurpatwant Pannun’s mother and father are lifeless and his brother, Magwant Singh, lives overseas. He has a level in legislation from Punjab College.
The file on Pannun additionally says he “needs to seduce the Muslims (and) create a Muslim nation that he needs to call as ‘Democratic Republic of Urdustan’, and that he’s radicalising individuals in Jammu and Kashmir to allow the latter’s separation from the Indian Union.
Instances In opposition to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun
In accordance with safety businesses, there are a complete of 16 circumstances towards Pannun; these have been registered in Punjab, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, in addition to Haryana and Uttarakhand.
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Of the above 16 circumstances, 9 are underneath the stringent Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, in response to the file on Pannun. 4 of those are in Delhi, two in Punjab (one in Amritsar and one other in Sirhind), a seventh in Gurugram in Haryana and an eighth in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
The ninth was filed by the Nationwide Investigation Company.
Pannun additionally faces practically two dozen different circumstances in Punjab alone, together with three of sedition.
Pannun’s Prison Actions
In accordance with the file, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has supplied a reward of US$2.5 million to anybody who might hoist the Khalistani flag at India Gate.
He reportedly additionally supplied US$1 million to any police personnel who stopped the Indian flag from being hoisted on the Purple Fort on Independence Day in 2021.
He has additionally tried a number of occasions to get Khalistani posters and flags put in at outstanding locations in Punjab, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.
NIA Raids On Gurpatwant Pannun
Final week the NIA seized Pannun’s dwelling in Chandigarh and agricultural land in Amritsar; this implies he has now misplaced all rights to those properties, which at the moment are owned by the Authorities of India.