Just days ahead of Republic Day, pro-Khalistan graffiti was found written on the wall of a Government school in west Delhi's Uttam Nagar area, police said on Friday. The slogan "Khalistan SFJ Zindabad" written on the wall came to notice on Thursday night, they said. The Delhi Police are actively investigating the incident to identify those responsible for the objectionable graffiti.

A senior police officer said a case was registered in Dwarka district under section 3 of the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act.

Several teams of the district, including special staff, are working on the case to nab the accused, the officer said, adding that CCTV footage of the area was being checked.

Pro-Khalistan leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the chief of the banned Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), released a video after the incident.

This is the second such incident to take place in less than three days.

On January 16, similar graffiti was found on a pillar in west Delhi's Nihal Vihar. The graffiti read "SJF, January 26, Khalistan". Pannu had released a threatening video then as well. An FIR was registered in connection with the incident on Tuesday.

These incidents came before Republic Day, with Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun issuing threats for the occasion. Pannun had warned about hoisting the Khalistani flag in Delhi on January 26. The threats come in the wake of the killing of Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June 2023.

Pannun, founder of Sikh For Justice (SFJ), a group campaigning for Khalistan, has a history of making threats against India. He was declared a 'designated individual terrorist' by the Centre in 2020, and the SFJ was banned in 2019 for its involvement in "anti-national and subversive" activities.