Safety has been tightened within the Jharkhand capital after U.S.-based designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun threatened to disrupt the fourth Take a look at match between India and England in Ranchi, officers stated.
Pannun, who has been designated as a terrorist by the House Ministry, has additionally appealed to the banned CPI (Maoist) by means of a video uploaded on social media to disrupt the match, officers stated.
The fourth Take a look at will begin on the JSCA Worldwide Stadium Complicated in Ranchi from February 23. The England workforce reached town on Tuesday.
“Gurupatwant Singh Pannun has threatened the India and England teams to cancel the match in Ranchi. He also urged the CPI (Maoist) to create disturbance in a bid to cancel the match.
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“An FIR has been lodged against him at Dhurwa police station under the IT Act and investigation has been initiated,” Deputy Superintendent of Police, Hatia, P.Ok. Mishra informed reporters on Tuesday.
Pannun has been on the Nationwide Investigation Company’s radar since 2019, when the anti-terror federal company registered its first case towards the “designated individual terrorist”, who has been spreading concern and terror in Punjab and elsewhere within the nation by means of threats and intimidation techniques.
Non-bailable warrants of arrest had been issued towards Pannun by the Particular NIA Court docket on February 3, 2021, and he was declared a “Proclaimed Offender” on November 29 final 12 months.
Tightening its noose across the U.S. and Canada-based Pannun, the NIA had in September 2023 confiscated a home and land of the self-styled common counsel of the outlawed Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) outfit in Punjab’s Amritsar and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.