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The Special Cell of the Delhi Police connected Friday (January 23, 2026) registered a archetypal accusation study against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, wide counsel of the Khalistani activistic radical Sikhs for Justice and a designated terrorist, for allegedly issuing threats to make unrest and disrupt bid successful the nationalist superior up of the Republic Day celebrations.
According to the police, the lawsuit was registered aft Mr. Pannun released a video connected his societal media pages successful which helium allegedly threatened to disturb bid successful Delhi. In the video, helium claimed that his “sleeper cells” had pasted pro-Khalistani posters successful assorted parts of the city, including Rohini and Dabri.
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.
On searching the locations mentioned, teams of the Special Cell and section constabulary recovered nary suspicious elements. No pro-Khalistan posters oregon related worldly were recovered during the verification drive, the constabulary said.
The lawsuit has been registered nether Sections 196 (promoting enmity betwixt antithetic groups connected grounds of religion, race, spot of birth, residence, language, etc, and doing acts prejudicial to the attraction of harmony), 197 (imputations and assertions prejudicial to nationalist integration), 152 (acts endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India), and 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the constabulary said.
“The claims made by Mr. 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 was nether mode to measure the intent, scope and imaginable interaction of the video, and that further ineligible enactment would beryllium taken based connected the findings. Security agencies person besides stepped up vigil crossed the superior up of Republic Day celebrations, with the constabulary maintaining that immoderate effort to disrupt bid would beryllium dealt with strictly nether the law.
