Overview
- Gosal was arrested by Ontario Provincial Police in Whitby on Friday and appeared in an Oshawa court on Monday on 12 firearms-related counts, court records show.
- Two others—Arman Singh, 23, of Toronto, and Jagdeep Singh, 41, of New York—were charged alongside the 36-year-old Brampton resident, who remains in custody.
- Gosal is identified in coverage as a Canadian coordinator for Sikhs for Justice and a close aide to Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, whose group is banned in India and who is designated a terrorist by New Delhi.
- Indian outlets attribute the arrest to dossiers and pressure following last week’s Doval–Drouin talks, while Canadian reporting emphasizes independent law-enforcement action and corrects early reports that mislocated the arrest to Ottawa.
- SFJ says the case concerns Canada’s duty to protect a threatened citizen; Global News reports Gosal previously received police ‘duty to warn’ notices, and he was separately arrested in November 2024 in a Brampton temple assault case.