Overview

• Pannun is accused in an NIA FIR of offering Rs 11 crore to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from unfurling the Tricolour at the Red Fort on August 15.
• The alleged announcement came on August 10 in a video address from Washington during a ‘Meet the Press’ event hosted at the Lahore Press Club.
• The case, registered on August 19 at the Home Ministry’s direction, cites ‘credible information’ and video from SFJ’s official X account as key material.
• Pannun faces charges under Section 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for criminal conspiracy and Sections 10 and 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, naming him and unknown others.
• The FIR says he unveiled a ‘Delhi Banayga Khalistan’ map incorporating Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and either Uttar Pradesh or Haryana as reported, and alleges a ‘Shaheed Jatha’ formation; this is the NIA’s seventh case against him and the probe continues.