As per the top officials of NIA, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has confiscated the properties of 19 Khalistani terrorists under section 33 (5) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
As per official sources, Govt of India has instructed concerned authorities to identify all Khalistani terrorists across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, cancel their OCI card, and banned their entry into India. Also, identify their properties and their well-wishers’ properties & and bank accounts in India and seize the same as soon as possible. The NIA has made a list of Khalistani terrorists based in foreign nations, including Britain, the US, Canada, UAE, and Pakistan among others, against whom major action is expected.
Earlier, on Saturday, the NIA also confiscated two properties of Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, the US-based Khalistani terrorist and chief of Sikhs for Justice. Earlier, the Government of India and security agencies also released a dossier on Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, which highlighted that he visited Pakistan where he met Jagtar Singh Tara of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), wanted in the assassination of Punjab’s former chief minister Beant Singh. Najjar, who was designated as a terrorist by the Union Home Ministry, was also accused of working closely with Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), led by Jagtar Singh Tara.
It was during that period that he got associated with Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI, which helped him organize secret training camps for Sikh extremist/khalistani groups associated with the Khalistan movement in Canada. His name also figured in the most wanted list handed over by then Punjab chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, to the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau,
in 2018.