[1][2] Pamma a resident of SAS Nagar district, Punjab was allegedly engaged in low level crimes until 1992.
He left India in 1994 and visited Pakistan and started fundraising for the Babbar Khalsa International, a Khalistani organisation.
[1][2] In 2009, Punjab police announced they wanted Pamma for supposedly masterminding the murder of Rulda Singh, head of Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, while still in the United Kingdom.
On 18 December 2015, while on a family holiday in Portugal, Pamma was detained by the Portuguese Police acting upon the Interpol notice.
[4] Philip Hammond, serving Foreign Secretary, told the UK parliament he was effectively powerless in the proceedings in Portuguese courts.