Punjab BJP leader Grewal urges NIA probe into death threats from Pannun and Rinda

Calling the threats portion of a broader “digital terror” campaign, Grewal accused the 2 of acting arsenic operatives of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and urged the Indian authorities to initiate an investigation

Punjab BJP person Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal.

Punjab BJP person Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal connected Friday issued a connection condemning the latest circular of decease threats allegedly by foreign-based Khalistani separatists Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, main of the banned outfit Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), and wanted violent Harvinder Singh Rinda.

Calling the threats portion of a broader “digital terror” campaign, Grewal accused the 2 of acting arsenic operatives of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and urged the Indian authorities to initiate an investigation.

Addressing reporters successful Phagwara, Grewal said the threats, believed to person been delivered via email, are a continuation of efforts to soundlessness voices that reason separatism and basal firmly with the Indian Union.

“These are not specified words. These are threats aimed astatine intimidating nationalists and attempting to weaken India’s interior information fabric,” helium said.

Referring specifically to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who is presently based successful the United States, Grewal alleged that SFJ functions arsenic a “digital panic platform” alternatively than a governmental oregon quality rights organisation.“This is not conscionable astir targeting an idiosyncratic similar me,” said Grewal. “This is simply a nonstop menace to the sovereignty of India, its institutions, and the regularisation of law.” He emphasised that specified threats indispensable not beryllium seen successful isolation but arsenic portion of an orchestrated run to dispersed separatist propaganda, particularly aimed astatine Punjab and its diaspora.

Grewal, who has served the BJP for implicit 3 decades and claims to person survived aggregate assassination attempts successful the past, said that the latest incidental had prompted him to constitute an authoritative missive to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking contiguous action.

In the letter, helium is understood to person requested a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe, integer forensic investigation of the threats, and initiation of diplomatic procedures to clasp foreign-based actors accountable.