Proscribed terrorist, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has offered a $1 million reward for anyone giving him advance Intelligence on the foreign trips of Union Home Minister, Amit Shah.
Pannun wanted by India for acts of terror also called for a shutdown of all CRPF schools in India from November 26 onwards. The statement comes just days after a blast outside a CRPF school in North Delhi’s Rohini.
Following the blast, the Khalistan Zindabad Force claimed responsibility for the same.
Pannun who is known for issuing threats against India urged the students and parents to boycott CRPF schools stating that the force has indulged in atrocities. He also accused the CRPF for the attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, facilitation of death squad during the 1984 genocide and extrajudicial killing of Sikhs in Punjab.
Pannun said that he was announcing a reward for any information on the foreign travel by Amit Shah since the Home Minister heads the CRPF. He also accused Shah for hiring mercenaries to assassinate Hardeep Singh Nijjar and also a murder for hire plot in New York.
Pannun who is the chief of the banned outfit, Sikhs for Justice said that one-time CRPF officials former top cop of Punjab K P S Gill and former Research and Analysis Wing official Vikash Yadav were responsible for various rights abuses, which included the killing of Sikhs in Punjab and abroad.
Pannun who has issued various threats in the past as well, currently is in overdrive mode after Canadian Prime Minister was seen backing the pro-Khalistan elements. This has led to a massive diplomatic spat between Canada and India.
Recently Pannun had claimed that he has been conversing the Canadian PMO. In an interview with CBC News he said that he had been communicating with Canada Prime Minister’s office.
He alleged that his organisation informed the Canadian PMO about how Indian High Commisioner Sanjay Verma, his second in command and the official before him laid out the spy networks which provided logistics and Intelligence support to the Indian agents who had alleged assassinated Nijjar.
India and recalled Verma and some other diplomats from Canada on October 14. The move came after Canada had named Verma and a few other diplomats as persons of interest in the investigation into Khalistani terrorist Nijjar’s murder. India also expelled six Canadian diplomats from the country.
