Assam CM receives Khalistan threat

The security of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has been tightened after a voice message issuing threat to him was received by a number of Assamese journalists based in Delhi and Assam from a person identifying himself as Gurpatwant Singh Pannu from the banned Sikhs for Justice. Officials in the know claimed that the voice in the message was that of Pannu, who has been designated as a terrorist by the Union Home Ministry. He is at present in the United States. The caller claimed that Sikhs were being “tortured" in Assam jail and asked Sarma to desist from doing it. After the crackdown on pro-Khalistan radical preacher Amritpal Singh, the Punjab government had shifted seven of his close aides to Assam’s Dibrugarh jail after slapping them with the National Security Act. The voice message came from masked Indian phone numbers.