Inderjeet Singh Gosal got the call after midnight Friday from Ontario police, warning him he was the subject of a “duty to warn” notice.
Gosal says police visited his home in Brampton, Ont., to notify him, but he was not home at the time, and later phoned him.
“There’s always a sense of fear when someone is trying to eliminate you when you are doing something legally, of course that brings fear,” explains Gosal.
He took over the unofficial Canada-wide referendum for Khalistan independence after Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was gunned down outside the gurdwara in Surrey on June 18 of last year, where he was president at the time.
Nijjar was a prominent supporter of the Khalistan movement, organizing unofficial referendums in the Sikh diaspora to advocate for a separate Sikh state in India.
The death shocked many in the local Sikh community who saw the killing as …