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The Delhi Police Special Cell has registered an FIR against Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun for allegedly issuing threats to make unrest successful the nationalist superior up of Republic Day, an authoritative said connected Friday (January 23, 2026).
The lawsuit has been registered nether Sections 196 (promoting enmity betwixt antithetic groups connected crushed of religion, race, spot of birth, residence, language, etc, and doing acts prejudicial to attraction of harmony), 197 (imputations and assertions prejudicial to nationalist integration), 152 (acts endangering sovereignty, unity and integrity of India) and 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), they said.
According to police, the enactment was initiated aft Pannun released a video connection connected societal media successful which helium allegedly threatened to disturb bid and instrumentality and bid successful Delhi earlier the Republic Day celebrations connected January 26.
In the video, Pannun claimed that his "sleeper cells" had pasted pro-Khalistan posters successful parts of the city, including Rohini successful northwest Delhi and Dabri successful southwest Delhi, arsenic portion of a larger conspiracy to incite unrest.
Senior constabulary officers said the video was circulated wide connected societal media platforms and was aimed astatine spreading fearfulness among the nationalist and provoking disharmony. "The contented of the video is provocative successful quality and poses a menace to nationalist order, particularly successful presumption of the heightened information arrangements up of January 26," an serviceman said.
Following the claims made successful the video, aggregate teams of the Special Cell and section constabulary units conducted searches successful the mentioned areas. However, nary pro-Khalistan posters oregon related worldly were recovered during the verification drive, the serviceman said.
"The claims made by Pannun regarding posters being enactment up successful Rohini and Dabri person not been substantiated truthful far. Despite extended checks and coordination with section constabulary stations, nary specified posters person been recovered," the serviceman added.
The Special Cell said further probe is underway to measure the intent, scope and imaginable interaction of the video, and further ineligible enactment volition beryllium taken arsenic per the findings. Security agencies person besides stepped up vigil crossed the superior successful presumption of Republic Day celebrations, with constabulary maintaining that immoderate effort to disrupt bid volition beryllium dealt with strictly nether the law.
