Expats on alert on these dates: Khalistan group threatens attacks on planes

NEW DELHI: Khalistani terrorist Gurpatvand Singh Pannu with a new message that threatens the lives of people including expatriates. A threatening message has come out that no one should travel on Air India flights from November 1 to 19. Pannu had issued a similar threat at the same time last year.

Pannu, the founder of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), warns that there will be an attack on the Air India flight as it is the 40th anniversary of the Sikh genocide. In 2019, the NIA first registered a case against Gurpatwand Singh Pannu, head of Sikhs for Justice in Canada. On July 10, 2019, the central government banned Sikhs for Justice. Pannu was declared a terrorist on July 1, 2020.

The NIA had collected crucial information about him carrying out terrorist activities in Punjab and other parts of the country. It has also been found that cyberspace is being misused to recruit youth for terrorist activities. He has been calling on the leaders of Punjab's criminal gangs and youth through social media to fight for an independent country called Khalistan. During the India-Canada crisis, he threatened to force Canadian Hindus to return to India.

An Air India Express flight was landed at the Jaipur International Airport following a bomb threat the other day. Air India Express Flight IX 196 from Dubai to Jaipur received a bomb threat. For the past few days, bomb threats against planes have been increasing continuously. Only yesterday there was a bomb threat to about 20 planes including yours in Kerala. All of them were found to be fake.