Three Indian Americans: Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, Jagdeep Singh and Jagjeet Singh, were amongst five to be charged of sedition and promoting enmity and criminal conspiracy for a campaign titled ‘Punjab Independence Referendum 2020.’

New York residents Pannun, Jagdeep Singh, a former resident of Fatehgarh Sahib and Jagjeet Singh, a former resident of Jammu and Kashmir, along with Gurpeet Singh, a resident of Mohali and Harpunit Singh, a resident of Nanak Nagar in Jammu and Kashmir, were all involved in the promotion of the campaign, managed by the Baba Hanuman Singh Enterprise agency which was hired by New York based Sikhs for Justice whose legal advisor happens to be Pannun, reported The Indian Express.