Overview

• The FIR, registered on August 19 on a Union Home Ministry directive, became public through media reports on September 23–24.
• Investigators cite a video from SFJ’s X account of Pannun addressing a August 10 ‘Meet the Press’ at Lahore Press Club via Washington, rejecting India’s sovereignty over Punjab.
• The case names Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and unknown persons under BNS Section 61(2) and UAPA Sections 10 and 13.
• The FIR alleges he unveiled a ‘Delhi Banayga Khalistan’ map including Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and claimed SFJ formed a ‘Shaheed Jatha’.
• Pannun leads the proscribed SFJ and was designated an ‘individual terrorist’ in 2020; this is the NIA’s seventh case against him, with authorities citing national and international ramifications for the probe.