Facing 22 criminal cases in Punjab, including three of sedition, Pannun is known to be operating from Canada.
New Delhi: Following the deaths of three dreaded pro-Khalistani terrorists in the past few months, the name of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, chief of the banned Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), is on the top of the security agencies’ radar now, an IANS report in The Tribune, Chandigarh, says
Facing 22 criminal cases in Punjab, including three of sedition, Pannun is known to be operating from Canada.
On May 6, Khalistani leader Paramjit Singh Panjwar, the head of the Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), was shot dead in Lahore.
On June 15, Avtar Singh Khanda, a leading exponent of Khalistan and handler of Amritpal Singh, died of cancer at a hospital in the UK.
Three days later on June 18, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen and chief of the banned outfit Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), was gunned down by two gunmen outside a gurdwara in Surrey, British Columbia.
Rocket-propelled grenade attack on Punjab Police’s Intelligence headquarters in Mohali last year, an audio message asking Kashmiri Muslims in Srinagar to go and disrupt the G20 Summit in New Delhi , or assassination threats to multiple chief ministers and others, have all been linked to the proscribed terrorist organisation Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) founded by Pannun.
Just last week, Pannun declared to hold “Shaheed Nijjar kill India referendum” on the question: Is Indian High Commissioner Verma responsible for the ‘assassination’ of Hardeep Singh Nijjar?
He also announced to hold Khalistan Referendum-II on October 29 in Surrey, British Columbia.
Pro-Khalistan leader Nijjar, who was declared a ‘wanted terrorist’ by the Indian government, was shot dead by two gunmen on the premises of Guru Nanak Sikh gurdwara, of which he was the head, in the Punjabi-dominated Surrey city on June 18.
Since Nijjar’s killing, many radical activists have raised questions as three killings of Sikh separatists took place within one month. They say: Is there a pattern in the sudden killings of three Khalistani terrorists?
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