Published 1:33 pm Wednesday, August 19, 2026 By Anna Burns/Surrey Now Leader Three Khalistan Referendum activists – including one from Surrey – have received warnings from the RCMP about “credible and imminent threats to their lives.” Surrey’s Narinder Singh Randhawa received his second ‘duty to warn’ from police on Aug. 16, which is issued when police have identified threats to an individual’s life. Manjinder Singh of Abbotsford and Inderjeet Singh Gosal of Caledon, Ont. also received warnings. The three men were friends with slain Surrey Gurdwara president Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar, 45, was shot to death on June 18, 2023, in the parking lot of Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, in the 7000-block of Scott Road in Newton. He was found in his truck. Nijjar was an ardent supporter of the Khalistani movement, which seeks to secure an independent Sikh nation in India, and his supporters maintain that India’s government was involved in his killing. He had received a duty-to-warn notification 11 months before his death. Police allegedly offered Gosal entry into the witness protection program, but he declined. “I appreciate the RCMP for informing me about these active threats to my life. But I would rather take India’s bullet than stop campaigning as a Khalistan Referendum activist,” he said. His plans for organizing the Oct. 18 Khalistan Referendum in Alberta have not changed. Singh added that, “Death threats will not stop the Punjab Independence referendum or our ongoing Shutdown Terror House rallies. I remain unshakeably committed to the cause of Punjab independence through the democratic referendum process—the very cause for which Shaheed Hardeep Singh Nijjar laid down his life.” The Now-Leader has reached out to the RCMP for comment.
Three pro-Khalistan activists in B.C. & Ontario receive duty to warns from police
