India’s Axar Patel arrives for the 4th Test match towards England to be performed at JSCA stadium, in Ranchi.
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Security has been tightened in the Jharkhand capital after U.S.-based designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun threatened to disrupt the fourth Test match between India and England in Ranchi, officers stated.
Pannun, who has been designated as a terrorist by the Home Ministry, has additionally appealed to the banned CPI (Maoist) via a video uploaded on social media to disrupt the match, officers stated.
The fourth Test will begin on the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi from February 23. The England staff reached the 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.Okay. Mishra advised reporters on Tuesday.
Pannun has been on the National Investigation Agency’s radar since 2019, when the anti-terror federal company registered its first case towards the “designated individual terrorist”, who has been spreading worry and terror in Punjab and elsewhere in the nation via threats and intimidation techniques.
Non-bailable warrants of arrest have been issued towards Pannun by the Special NIA Court on February 3, 2021, and he was declared a “Proclaimed Offender” on November 29 final yr.
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 basic counsel of the outlawed Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) outfit in Punjab’s Amritsar and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
