NIA registers case against ‘listed individual terrorist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannun

The National Investigation Agency has registered a case against ‘listed individual terrorist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. The case has been registered for his latest viral video threatening the passengers flying with Air India Airlines and closure of the operations of the airline. According to the NIA, Pannun also threatened that Air India would not be allowed to operate in the world.

Pannun’s assertions and threats have triggered a high alert as well as investigations by security forces in Canada, India and certain other countries where Air India’s flights operate.

NIA said, that as part of his concerted plan to promote terror acts in India to revive terrorism in India, Pannun has been creating a false narrative around the issues prevailing in the state of Punjab, especially with regard to Sikh religion, by promoting



enmity between the Sikhs in the country and other communities. 

The latest threat is in line with the same narrative, which Pannun has actively promoted in the past by threatening and attempting to disrupt essential transportation network systems, including the Railways, as well as thermal power plants in the country.

The Ministry of Home Affairs banned Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) as an unlawful association under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in 2019. Pannun was listed as an ‘individual terrorist’ by the government in 2020. Pannun has been under the NIA lens since 2019 when the anti-terror agency registered its first case against him. In September this year, the NIA confiscated his share of the house and land of the lister terrorists in Amritsar and Chandigarh.