India, Sept. 22 -- The secessionist group Sikhs for Justice or SFJ has confirmed that its Canadian coordinator for the so-called Khalistan Referendum Inderjeet Singh Gosal has been taken into custody by Canadian police.

Earlier, in a statement issued on Monday, SFJ said that "the arrest of Inderjeet Singh Gosal on firearms charges is in fact a case about the Canadian Government's duty to protect the life of a Canadian citizen who is facing imminent and grave threat to his life from Indian Government."

There is no official confirmation from law enforcement agencies on Gosal's arrest or the charges he is facing or whether he was taken into protective custody.

Gosal, considered a close confidant of SFJ general counsel Gurpatwant Pannun, r...