Pannun’s SFJ filing baseless court cases in Europe, Canada, USA to defame India: Govt

Last year, a US territory tribunal had issued summons to the Indian government, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and erstwhile R&AW main Samant Goel, among others, connected a civilian suit filed by Pannun, seeking damages for an alleged crippled to assassinate him successful 2023. On July 10 past year, the Ministry of Home Affairs extended the prohibition connected designated violent Pannun for 5 years for “anti-India activities”.

The MHA informed the tribunal that the activities of SFJ are usually carried retired from the offices of its Pannun, its ineligible adviser, successful New York and successful California. “Pannun had instigated the protesting Indian farmers to limb themselves and combat the Indian forces and stated that the weapons would scope them from crossed the border. SFJ has besides claimed to person prepared a database of children of constabulary officers and politicians who are studying successful overseas countries to instrumentality revenge, if its activists are tortured,” the MHA said.

Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta of the UAPA tribunal had said successful his bid that the grounds connected grounds on with the worldly relied upon by the authorities beryllium that unlawful activities person been undertaken by the SFJ intending the cession oregon secession of the portion of the territory of India.

“The unlawful and disruptive activities connected the look of the grounds endanger the peace, unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of India. The relation is supporting convulsive forms of extremism successful Punjab and determination tin beryllium nary abstraction for an relation which openly advocates secessionism and undermines the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India. There is simply a beardown instauration for declaring SFJ to beryllium an ‘unlawful association’ nether sub-section (1) of Section 3 of UA(P)A,” helium said.

A full of 104 cases – 96 by state/UT constabulary and 8 cases by the National Investigation Agency — person been registered against SFJ.

On July 22 past year, a recorded dependable enactment was received connected the landline of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s residence. The message, attributed to Pannun, alleged that Sikhs were facing existential threats nether the Indian authorities and warned Members of Parliament to enactment location if they did not privation to acquisition the Khalistan referendum. “The telephone originates from an planetary fig and efforts are being made to place the idiosyncratic with assistance from Interpol,” the MHA said.

During probe of 1 of the cases, Delhi Police had submitted the recorded telephone on with a video clip of his interview, which helium gave to a backstage TV quality channel, to the CFSL, Delhi, for forensic examination. “The CFSL’s report, received connected January 6, 2023, confirmed that the dependable successful the questioned telephone matched Pannun’s dependable sample. A Mutual Legal Assistance petition was sent to the United States seeking accusation from US-based societal media platforms. However, US authorities declined to supply the requested information. Further ineligible proceedings are ongoing,” the MHA said.

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