The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said that it will seize the properties in India of nineteen more fugitive Khalistani terrorists amid an escalating diplomatic row between India and Canada. The move came a day after NIA confiscated a house and land of self-styled general counsel of the banned pro-Khalistan outfit, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), and Canada-based designated individual terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in Amritsar and Chandigarh on Saturday.
Pannu has been in the news for issuing blatant threats in an online hate speech video to senior Indian diplomats and government functionaries in public forums. He had also threatened Canadian Hindus, asking them to leave Canada and claiming that they had adopted a ‘jingoistic approach’ by siding with India. Earlier, slain Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s India property was also confiscated by the NIA on Saturday.
Preparations are underway to attach the properties of Paramjit Singh Pamma, Kulwant Muthada, Sukhpal Singh, Sarabjit Benur, Kulwant, Gurpreet Singh, Harjap, Harpreet Singh, Ranjeet Neeta, Gurmeet Singh, Jasmeet Hakimzada, Gurjant Dhillon, Lakhbir Rode, Amardeep Purewal, Jatinder Grewal, Dupinder Jeet, S Himmat Singh, Wadhwa Singh (Babbar uncle) and J Dhaliwal.
Meanwhile, holding his own party-led government in Canada responsible for inaction against Khalistani extremists, Liberal party MP Chandra Arya on Sunday asserted that Hindu Canadians were fearful after threats issued by extremist elements. Arya, who is a lawmaker from PM Justin Trudeau’s party, has repeatedly raised the issue of threats to Hindu Canadians and urged the community to stay calm and vigilant. Arya’s remarks came after Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and other extremist elements issued threats to the Hindu community in Canada, warning them to go back to India, amid the ongoing standoff between the two countries.
‘Canada received ‘Five Eyes’ Intel against India’
Toronto : According to a media report on Saturday, a senior American diplomat has confirmed that “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” was what sparked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s offensive claim about Indian agents’ involvement in the killing of a Khalistani terrorist in Canada. According to David Cohen, the US ambassador to Canada, there was “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” that informed Trudeau’s public allegation of a “potential” connection between the government of India and the murder of a Canadian citizen. There was “shared intelligence among Five Eyes partners” that informed Trudeau’s public allegation of a “potential” link between the government of India and the murder of a Canadian citizen, CTV News Channel, Canada’s 24-hour all-news network, reported quoting the US Ambassador to Canada David Cohen. ‘Five Eyes’ network is an intelligence alliance consisting of the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It is both surveillance-based and signals intelligence (SIGINT). Justin Trudeau had on September 18 made an explosive allegation of the “potential” involvement of Indian agents in the killing of Khalistani extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen, in Surrey in British Columbia on June 18. India has rejected Trudeau’s allegations as “absurd” and “motivated.” It also expelled a senior Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move to Ottawa’s expulsion of an Indian official over the case. In 2020, India designated Nijjar, 45, as a terrorist.
