Toronto: India will elevate the risk to Air India flights to and from Canada from the secessionist group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) and search enhanced safety for the airline with Canadian authorities.

The risk was made by SFJ’s general-counsel Gurpatwant Pannun in a video launched on Saturday. In the video he warns Sikhs, in Punjabi, “Don’t fly Air India after November 19, your lives may be in danger.” That sentence is repeated twice. In an announcement issued together with the video, Pannun known as for a ‘Global blockade’ of the airline from Vancouver to London.

In a response to a question from the Hindustan Times, India’s High Commissioner to Ottawa Sanjay Kumar Verma mentioned, “We shall take up the threat against Air India flights originating from and terminating in Canada, with the concerned Canadian authorities.”

Air India operates a number of weekly direct flights between the Canadian cities of Toronto and Vancouver to New Delhi.

“We have studied the contents of the video, which is in clear violation of Chicago Convention, which lays out a framework for international civil aviation operations. Canada and India, among many other nations, are Parties to the Convention.

The bilateral civil aviation agreement between India and Canada has provisions to tackle such threats, Verma added in his response to HT.

The Convention on International Civil Aviation, better known as the Chicago Convention, was drafted in 1944 by 54 nations and had established “the core principles permitting international transport by air”, in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

The focusing on of Air India is paying homage to the circumstances main as much as what stays the worst incident of terrorism in Canadian historical past. On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India flight 182, the Kanishka, by Khalistani terrorists, led to the lack of 329 lives, whereas two baggage handlers in Tokyo’s Narita airport died from a blast from one other bomb on one other airplane.

The day continues to be commemorated in Canada because the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism. However, extremist teams proceed to venerate the particular person thought of the mastermind of the assault, Talwinder Singh Parmar. In reality, in June this 12 months, pro-Khalistan parts took out a rally in his reminiscence to the memorial for victims of the Air India terror assault in Toronto.