The NIA on Saturday confiscated certain immovable properties belonging to Pannun under section 33(5) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), 1967. (News18)
Ravneet Bittu, the grandson of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh who was assassinated by extremists in 1995, said he welcomes the move to confiscate the properties of designated terrorist and Sikhs for Justice leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun
Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu on Saturday welcomed the National Investigation Agency’s move to confiscate the properties of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a member of the banned pro-Khalistani group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), and urged the government to extradite the designated terrorist.
Ravneet Bittu is the grandson of Beant Singh, then chief minister of Punjab who was assassinated by extremists in 1995.
“The government should extradite him (Pannun). I appreciate this action,” the Ludhiana MP told News18. “His properties should be bulldozed. Pannun’s properties should be bombed. He is supplying drugs. He is insulting our country. His property should be bulldozed… this is a welcome step,” he added.
The NIA on Saturday confiscated certain immovable properties belonging to Pannun under section 33(5) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), 1967.
Multiple agencies have filed cases against Pannun who has been declared as an “individual terrorist” under the fourth schedule of UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention Amendment Act).
“Pannun is accused in case RC-19/2020/NIA/DLI dated 05.04.2020 under sections 120-B, 124-A, 153-A 153-B and 17, 18 and 19 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. The case relates to funding of terrorist activities in Punjab from abroad, creating disharmony among communities and radicalising youth for terrorist activities,” an official told News18.
“The properties include agricultural land in Village Khankot, Amritsar and share of House Number 2033, Sector 15/C, Chandigarh.”
The action comes amid a diplomatic low between India and Canada over Ottawa’s allegations that New Delhi had a hand in the murder of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.
Ravneet Bittu had also raged against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Parliament this week, saying that the money of Canadians involved in narcotics trade in Punjab is being pumped into his party.
Supporting the Narendra Modi government’s foreign policy on the issue, the Congress MP said: “Our foreign policy from Jawaharlal Nehru to PM Narendra Modi ji has been of non-alignment. The Congress has also taken a strong stance on what the Canadian PM has said in their Parliament…”
“The Canadian PM is speaking against our country and our prime minister in his Parliament. When Trudeau’s father was the prime minister, Kanishka bombing took place, even investigation of that could not take place,” he said, referring to the bombing of an Air India flight in 1985.
Ravneet Singh Bittu’s grandfather and then Punjab CM Beant Singh was assassinated in an explosion outside the Punjab civil secretariat that also killed 16 others on August 31, 1995. In May this year, Supreme Court declined to commute the death penalty of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was convicted in the assassination case.
