The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has registered a case towards ‘listed particular person terrorist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannun over his newest viral video threatening the passengers flying and Air India Airways with a world blockade and closure of the operations of the airline from nineteenth November.
The NIA has booked Pannun underneath sections 120B, 153A & 506 of the IPC and sections 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 18B & 20 of Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, 1967.
Pannun, the self-proclaimed Basic Counsel’ of the outlawed ‘illegal Affiliation’, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), is within the eye of the storm but once more following the discharge and circulation of video messages on numerous social media platforms urging the Sikhs to not fly on Air India planes on and after nineteenth November claiming risk to their lives in the event that they flew on Air India. Pannun additionally threatened that Air India wouldn’t be allowed to function on this planet. Pannun’s assertions and threats have triggered a excessive alert in addition to investigations by safety forces in Canada, India and sure different nations the place Air India flies.
In his video messages, launched on 4th November, Pannun had urged Sikhs to cease flying on Air India planes on and after the mentioned date, citing potential risk to their lives. He additionally issued a warning to the Authorities of India that “The Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport (IGIA) would stay closed on the nineteenth of November.” IGIA, positioned in New Delhi, is among the world’s busiest airports.
As a part of his concerted plan to advertise terror acts in India to revive terrorism in India, Pannun has been making a false narrative across the points prevailing within the state of Punjab, particularly with regard to Sikh faith, by selling enmity between the Sikhs within the nation and different communities. The newest risk is consistent with the identical narrative, which Pannun has actively promoted previously by threatening & trying to disrupt important transportation community methods, together with the Railways, in addition to Thermal Energy Crops in India.
The Ministry of Residence Affairs, Authorities of India (GoI), had, on tenth July 2019, banned SFJ as an ‘illegal affiliation’ underneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for its actions. On 1st July 2020, Pannun was listed as an ‘particular person terrorist’ by the GoI.
Pannun has been underneath NIA lens since 2019, when the anti-terror company registered its first case towards him. In September 2023, the NIA had confiscated his share of the home and land of the lister terrorist in Amritsar (Punjab) and Chandigarh UT. Non-Bailable warrants of arrest had been issued towards Pannun by the NIA Particular Court docket on third February 2021 and he was declared a ‘Proclaimed Offender (PO)’ on twenty ninth November 2022.
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