CHANDIGARH—Lawyers For Human Rights International (LFHRI) released a fact finding report about torture committed by the Punjab police on a Hoshiarpur based Sikh youth, Jaspreet Singh, who was brutally tortured by the Police because they alleged that he was a member of the Khalistan Liberation Force. The Sikh youth, Jaspreet Singh, was admitted into the hospital after getting traumatized due to the torture.
Full Report:
While 1.3 billion citizens of India celebrated the long weekend of the Indian Independence Day, young Jaspreet Singh, also known as Jassa Singh, a 22 year old young Amritdari Sikh boy, who is also a Gatka teacher by profession, was subjected to the worst kind of interrogation/torture techniques by the Punjab Police between the dates of August 6 to 15, 2016. Jaspreet Singh is accused in FIR Number 93 registered at the Police Station Chabbewal, District Hoshiarpur on August 6, 2016 under sections of provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Arms Act.
After remaining in Police remand from August 6 to August 15, Jassa Singh and three other accused were sent to judicial custody to Central Jail in Hoshiarpur. However, finding one of the accused, Jassa Singh, in a bad physical and mental health condition, on August 16, 2016, Jaspreet Singh’s lawyer filed an application for treatment and medical examination from a board of doctors, upon which the following order was passed by the Hoshiarpur court that,
“An application for directing jail authority to produce accused/applicant before SMO Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur and to constitute a board to [of] doctors to conduct his medical has been filed today. In view of the contents mentioned in the application, jail authority are directed to produce Jaspreet Singh before SMO, Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur on 18.8.2016 and further SMO, Hoshiarpur is directed to constitute a board of doctors to conduct the medical examination of the accused/applicant Jaspreet Singh and report to this court on or before 23.8.2016 and if need be accused/applicant Jaspreet Singh be sent to some better institute of [for] his treatment.”
On coming to know about the torture in Police custody on August 20, 2016 a team of Lawyers from the “Lawyers for Human Rights International” (hereinafter referred to as “LFHRI”) consisting of Navkiran Singh, Navratan Singh and Harjinder Singh Dhami visited Jaspreet Singh and the 3 other accused, Hardeep Singh Deepa, Bikramjit Singh, and Kuldeep Singh (also known as Deep) who had been in judicial custody at the Hoshiarpur Central Jail since August 15, 2016.
On first sight, Jaspreet Singh emerged as a healthy youth, with a recently sprouted beard, however his walk and posture was that of an old man in his twilight years, who had not been able to stand straight for decades. His first outburst after greeting us was “please get me out of here”, “they will again come and take me on police remand and further torture me” while his body was trembling with fear and his voice was choked as he described the ordial that he had gone through in Police custody.
He was accompanied by three other young boys, his co-accused of the same age, who were also badly tortured, but were in a better condition and were physically supporting Jaspreet Singh from the barracks to the visiting room.
In Jaspreet Singh’s own words, he described that:
A handheld machine with a handle on one side and two wires coming out from the other, was brought by the Punjab Police. They used the machine to electrocute me several times on my 1) Earlobes, 2) Testicles, 3) Nostrils and 4) Nipples. He kept repeating, “Please get me out of here”, “Please make the screams in my head stop” and “Please don’t make me sleep on the floor”.
His penis was swollen due to low voltage electric shocks and he had unbearable pain in his scrotum and as a result he was unable to urinate.
The Punjab Police repeatedly hit my “reedh di Haddee” (tailbone) with slippers and as a result I am unable to sit or lie down straight, he repeatedly complained of swollen buttocks and shooting pain in his tail bone.
The Punjab Police repeatedly hit my feet with a “Danda” (thick wooden stick) on the heels, due to which he could not stand.
The Punjab Police repeatedly slapped hard on my ears, due to which I have continuous shooting pain in my ears.
The following images are graphical descriptions of the torture techniques that were administered to Jaspreet Singh:
According to Jassa Singh, the worst part of the torture aftermath were the constant stressed nerves in his head, which were obvious signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. He said “I keep hearing myself screaming in pain repeated in my head”.He disclosed to the Lawyers for Human Rights International team that the Punjab Police told him that they will keep administering these shocks to him until he is unable to take anymore and he confesses to the allegation being foisted upon him by the police and that they will ensure that no marks of the torture will appear in any medical report.
Any sane reasonable person who would encounter Jaspreet Singh in this condition would immediately know that he is in dire need of immediate medical treatment, however, to our shock, although, Jaspreet Singh was produced before SMO, Civil Hospital on August 18, 2016 and a symbolic ‘board of doctors’ was constituted, on inquiry by the LFHRI team we were advised that this expert ‘board of doctors’ believed that no immediate treatment was needed to Jaspreet Singh and they could only advise after receiving his test reports as recommended by them, which were still pending since the last three days. As a result, Jaspreet Singh was sent back to the Central Jail, Hoshiarpur.
This in our opinion, was done in complete disregard of the court order, which spelled out in clear language that “if need be, accused/applicant Jaspreet Singh be sent to some better institute of [for] his treatment”. Outraged by the lack of common sense to say the least and blatant display of inhuman dealing by the ‘board of doctors’, the LFHRI team pointed out the obvious professional misconduct of the ‘board of doctors’ and were able to convince the Doctors to call the patient back from the jail and give him the required treatment.
In the afternoon, the LFHRI team was able to get Jaspreet Singh transferred from the Central Jail to the Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur and we expect that he will receive the much needed medical care.
It is also essential to note that a U.S based human rights NGO i.e. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) claim that, these arrested youths were their workers and were distributing T-shirts and obtaining signatures for the campaign “Referendum 2020”, which is initiated by SFJ to request the United Nations to hold a referendum on right to self-determination for the Sikhs on the basis of the U.N Charter and International Convent on Civil and Political Rights. A complaint reference has also been made to the United Nations by SFJ on August 17, 2016.
As per The Times of India news article dated August 11, 2016 the following statements have been given by the Police officials regarding the arrest of these young boys,
“Jalandhar zone inspector general of police (IG) LokNathAngra said a US resident, Harjap Singh Jaaphi, hailing from Bhilowal village near Chabbewal in Hoshiarpur district, was associated with SFJ and was a proclaimed offender in an old terror related case of murder. “The youths arrested were working for Referendum 2020 launched by SFJ, and they were also planning to carry out some terror activity with the weapons recovered from them,” he said.
Hoshiarpur police registered a case under provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Arms Act on August 6, and arrested three youths — Jaspreet Singh Jassa of Chabbewal, Hardeep Singh Deepa of Jallowal, and Kuldeep Singh of MohalllaShekhan in Hoshiarpur — while recovering three pistols of 9mm and .32 bore, 28 cartridges, T-shirts and religious and other books. They also arrested one Bikramjit Singh of Annaikot Kalan village of Gurdaspur district while recovering 40 rounds of .32 bore, T-shirts and flags. Hoshiarpur senior superintendent of police (SSP) KS Chahal said all of them were arrested from their respective residences.”
Complete article can be found here:
To the common man a mythical story of the origin and diffusion of electric torture is endlessly repeated in movies, cheap novels, and uncritical accusations. In the popular imagination, visible in movies like Lethal Weapon or Rambo, electric torture belongs to evil forces such as the cruel ex-Marines, the KGB, the Viet Cong, or Latin American Fascists. Those who truly believe that such vivid images of torture by electric shock are limited to theater and fictional novels are greatly mistaken.
Such horrific incidences are very real and a very unfortunate part of the Punjab Police investigative techniques. While the rest of India might have celebrated the long weekend of Independence Day, Jaspreet Singh was introduced to the dark side of police brutality that exists only in the fictional imagination of the common law abiding citizen. Such impunity given to the police is the largest threat to a functioning free democratic society like India.
LFHRI General Secretary, Navkiran Singh has been an active Human Rights Lawyer for the past 30 years and according to him, “This is the worst condition of a brutally tortured prisoner that I have seen in my 30 years of legal career”. We do hope that the ‘board of doctors’ report in a fear less manner and are able to provide the necessary medical aid to the brutally tortured. LFHRI will wait for the medical report till August 23, 2016 and may have to move the Hon’ble Punjab and Haryana high court for a judicial enquiry.
If you obey the laws the State shall protect you.
It is dangerous to break the laws and one may do so at his own Peril.
There is a saying that suffragettes (who like Bapu Surat Singh were force fed and brutalised by police) used in their appeal to their fellow citizens for their right to equality be recognised: ‘For the law to be respected it must first be respectable’ .
I told you in 1984 there was a rebellion in Punjab against the Indian State.
The centre in order to maintain the law and order had to come down with a heavy hand.
There was no mass killing what the Jews had undergone.under the Nazis.
Any state or Nation in world is duty bound to protect the constitution.of that Nation.
You are again just parroting the brainwash narrative to justify attack on the Sikhs. The root cause again you completely ignore for this ‘rebellion’ which go back to before India is actually created and when promises are made to the Sikhs to induce them to join India instead of reforming their own sovereign country again. Talk of that insurrection and betrayal by the likes of Nehru, Congress and the Hinduvta polity in 1950s, 1960s (where ‘revolt’ against Punjab and the Sikh majority there is legitimised by the State by allowing referendum in 1966 encouraging Punjabi Hindus to see themselves as being seperate from their Punjabi Sikh kindred. 1978 the State is committing rebellion against Sikhs by using proxies to murder Sikhs in Amritsar. IN 1984 in the streets of Delhi for 4 days the police (those who are not actually involved in disarming Sikhs and sending mobs to their homes to murder them) are standing aside whilst the army is kept out of the city to allow Rajiv gandhi to take personal revenge on Sikhs – the PM of the country with the full force of the state is committing mass murder – the five thousand plus raped and murdered in those 4 days is over a hundred worse in terms of the numbers killed and properties destroyed than Hitler achieved with his kristalnacht! You really need to read your history properly when you talk of constitution. As reported in Young India, 19th March 1931, Mahatma Gandhi addressed the Sikhs in Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib Delhi and said “I ask you to accept my word and the resolution of the Congress that it will not betray a single individual Sikh much less the Sikh community. If it ever thought of doing so, it would only hasten its own doom… I pray you to unbossom yourself of all doubt and apprehensions. Let God be witness to the bond that binds me and the Congress to you. I venture to suggest that the non-violence creed of the Congress is the surest guarantee of good faith and our Sikh friends have no reason to fear that it would betray them. For the moment it did so the Congress would not only thereby seals its own doom but that of the country also. Moreover the Sikhs are a brave people. They know how to safeguard their rights by the exercise of arms, if it ever come to that”. That same Gurdwara was attacked by Congress led mobs in 1984. At a press conference in 1946 as reported in the Statemans newspaper July 7th 1946, Nehru said “the brave SIkhs of Punjab are entitled to special consideration, I see nothing wrong in an area set up in the north wherein the SIkhs can also experience the glow of freedom”. Then in 9th December 1946 he presented a resolution in the session of constituent assembly “Adequate safeguards would be provided for minorities in India. It was a declaration, a pledge, and an undertaking before the world’ a contract with millions of Indians and therefore in the nature of a oath which we must keep”. He then passed a resolution in the Congress committee on 5th January 1947 “The rights of the Sikhs in Punjab should not be jeopardized”. In July 1947 they passed resolution “In the divided Indian PUnjab special constitutional measures are imperative to meet the just aspirations and rights of the Sikhs”. Now talk of Sikhs breaking the Constitution when bad faith has been given to them after 1947 despite these assurances. We are the most loyal people of India because we keep our word.
Indian state is not a Nazi state.
No mass extermination has been carried out by India of any segment of its population.
No Nation in world will tolerate Rebels be it USA as in Snow den case or recently the rebels in Turkey.
So love your Nation and its people which ever Nation you decide to live in.
Mass extermination = genocide. The Sikhs have been victim of state sponsored genocide in 1984 (akin to Hitler’s kristallnacht killing of Jews) and extra judicial killings and disappearance into the 1990s. You don’t kill citizens who politically dissent and protest, that is their democratic right.
The Nation is strong enough to handle all anti National forces.
You shall unnecessarily put our children in harms way if you try fighting the Nation .
Fascist message from a fascist supporter. The Nazis would be proud you R’SS’ Harinder following their ideology but Shaheeds Kartar Singh Sarabha, Bhagat Singh and Udham Singh would be ashamed. Note the Nazis were roundly defeated and exposed for their inhumanity.
Fight for human rights is now a crime – this is Indian democracy…… These hinduvata RSS agents like Harinder are so disgusting cannot still admit to inhumane treatment of innocents…….
What goes around comes around DO NOT EVER FORGET THAT….
Sikhs don’t have slave mentality, they will never surrender, and will keep on fighting for human rights, Remember which community at large fought the Indian govt when emergency was declared If sikhs didn’t do that at that time you probably would be living under Nehru dynasty. So cut the crap and fight for the human rights .
All people who are anti National wiil be attacked by Nationalists.
All people who are religious extremists will be attacked by religious extremist of other religious groups.
So live in peace and harmony with your neighbour’s to lead a meaningful life .
No such thing as ‘anti national’ when you are talking about a democracy as every citizen has the right to dissent and oppose the state if they feel it is persecuting them. That is how governments and bad laws are changed when it becomes too hard to resist the moral argument against keeping the status quo. This is how apartheid South Africa had to yield to Nelson Mandela and how even the Burmese military Junta had to grudgingly accommodate Aung San Suu Kyi and the mass movement she led against repression.
Love your Nation and its citizen where ever you live in.
If you don’t like a Nation then you may leave and go to a new Nation.
India is not South Africa being ruled by an Empire with apartheid.So your comparison is wrong
Burma if my knowledge is correct is a country which changed from military governance to democratic system of governance.
Love your nation means that it must live up to its potential and the promises it made to the Sikhs at its very inception. Both Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi made solemn oaths to guarantee the rights of Sikhs which were reneged upon.When one party breaks the terms of a deal you cannot just expect the other side to to keep their end of the bargain especially when they are being attacked. The Punjab is the SIKH HOMELAND and was previously a sovereign SIkh state and is OURS. The Punjabi Hindus have already walked away form Punjab taking land form it to form their own state of Haryana (in 1966 referendum) and the Punjabi Muslim has done the same in 1947 partition to form Pakistan. If you insist that the Sikhs in Punjab are not going to get their rights (and who are you to say that we are not – the white south african also were saying the blacks are being treated fairly and do not deserve any special recognition) then give them also democratic referendum that you already gave to Punjabi Hindus. You dont want to do that becuase you Sikhs will voice their grievances and then you cannot just keep ignoring them and saying there are no grievances. You are threatening the integrity of my country by disciminating against and persecuting my people. IN both cases of South Africa and Burma the unjust governance had to yield to the sustained pressure of justice for all its people and not just those favoured by the ruling elite. Also I don;t like this comment love your nation (Sikhs have disproportionately suffered more loss for creation and sustenance of India than any other population) wherever you live as it seems to say to Sikhs disapora ‘don’t worry about Indian Sikhs and abuses done to them’. Tell me do you say the same thing to disapora Hindus? No you send RSS chief to UK to rally them for support back in India – in UK the Hindu population is twice that of Sikh population from UK census. IN the same way SIkhs abroad cannot abandon their SIkh brethren in India as Punjab is our homeland and heartland and like the Jew or cannot forsake Israel or the Muslim who cannot forsake Mecca the Sikhs cannot forsake our soil of Punjab no matter that you stain it with blood and steal and pollute its waters.
PM Nehru and Mr Gandhi are gone .
We got to decide how we will shape future of our Indian Nation.
Will we be in perpetual grievance mode or do some thing constructive.
Nehru and Gandhi may be gone but their promises made to induce the Sikhs to throw in our lot with India instead of reforming our Sikh sovereign nation (as we had under the Khalsa Raj of Maharajah Ranjit Singh) still stand – that is the basis of a contract and treaties, you keep your word.
1984 happened due to militancy in Punjab where innocent people were being killed by our religious extremists.
They and all religious extremist should be kept under check.
Also attempt to try to break the Indian nation is illegal and it will invite the wrath of Indian state.
Anti National people also need to be kept under check.
As for illegal killing one should go to the courts.
Live peacefully with your neighbour’s to prevent going back to 19o0-1990 violent Punjab.
Let me add that we have already under gone 3 genocides and so need to understand world order ,Empire ,Religion and Nationalism in a deeper way.
No, I have explained in detail countless times that 1984 happened because the promises made to Sikhs to induce them to throw in their lot with India in 1947 were reneged upon by the likes of Nehru onwards. These genuine grievances were outlined in detail in the Anandpur Sahib resolutions during the 60s and 70s and were again rebuffed culminating in the 1978 murder of Sikhs by Central Government proxies as Congress were trying to break the stranglehold of Akali power in Punjab to emasculate Sikh demands. Nothing to do with religious extremists but dirty politics and broken promises. No such thing as ‘anti national’, this is a term drummed up to be a catch-all last used in earnest by the Nazi Government of Germany during the 1930s which allowed them to detain, arrest, re-educate, torture and exterminate anyone opposed to the Nazi State (the wrath you speak of with such pride) starting with political opponents (communists, liberals etc), intellectuals, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah’s witnesses, conscientious objectors, pacifists and Jews. Your language in tone and content echoes exactly the fascist message of the Nazi state to its citizens and is typical of your slavery mindset which a Sikh can never share. This is the only thing Sikhs need to understand about you and your Hinduvta brethren whilst you have to understand the genocides Sikhs have faced under Moghul, British and Indian rule we are still here and unbowed. If anything we are more numerous and more cognisant of our identity – trees do tend to grow more vigorously after forest fires and so it is with human resolve in the face of injustice. Remember the arc of history and the moral universe is long but it bends towards to justice. You learn to live with your neighbour peacefully – start with sitting and eating with the Dalit instead of murdering him for simply transporting cows. You can do this just by going to the langar of a Gurdwara where such humility and brotherhood is practised every day.
1984 has multiple causes from
1) Theological since we shed our ancestors faith by our first Guruj in rejecting Janau
2) The renenged promises post 1947 as highlighted by you
3) Religious Extremists aggravating the situation.
Wow, there you have in a nutshell the reason for your irrational long festering hatred towards the Sikhs., You don’t even think they have the right to exist! Guru Nanak was a visionary man blessed with divine knowledge which he was able to pass onto the common man liberating them form kalyug darkness and ignorance – belief in superstition, idol worshipping, animal worshipping, astrology, caste discrimination, mysgony etc that your Janua is all about. At least you have acknowledged the reneged promises of 1947 being the root cause of 1984.
You are no one to decide what Religion Dalits want to follow .
It is entirely there business.
If any one has been killed in Police firing then the family need to go to Court.
As for Drug’s it is the job of parents to keep there children away from Drugs.
Water in Punjab has Uranium in it for what ever reason I don’t know.
The only answer is to have new Punjabs crop in different cities and villages of the world.
Just live in peace and harmony with your neighbour’s
We all have to go on a long Voyages to different planets and Galaxies.
I don’t care what religion Dalits follow so long as they are allowed to follow whatever religion or none that they wish. You and your RSS thugs are the ones who cannot stand the idea that Dalits might forsake Hinduism for some other faith and that is why you indulge in thuggish intimidation and re-indoctrination campaigns such as Ghar Wapsi. As for drugs you think it is the responsibility only of the parents to educate their children. Good I will press for Sikhs to do exactly that with the spread of Sikhi’s discipline whilst your Badal ministers like Majithia are accused of drug trafficking to them. YOu know exactly where that uranium is coming from and are quite happy that it be used to harm Punjabis. You should learn how to live in harmony with your neighbours instead of thinking all the time how to control them – the poor downtrodden Dalits included.
‘If any one has been killed in Police firing then the family need to go to Court.’ Wow, very humane of you when you know the history of political interference in courts and the years and money needed to pursue a case when it is inconvenient to people abusing their powerful positions. Do you how many thousands of Sikhs are still awaiting justice since 1984 in the court? And you just want these latest families of police atrocities to simply and meekly take their place at the back of the queue which is deigned to be long enough for all complainants if not the accused to die of natural causes in the meantime. And what do you even mean by saying ‘if anyone has been killed in police firing’? Two dead Sikhs and two inquiries and you are even prepared to doubt that there were Sikhs victims?!! I know you regard monkeys as being holy animals but that sad devotion should not extend to the three ‘see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil’ monkeys.
Barbaric acts of the Indian Govt will not break we Sikh’s spirit. They will pay in their own ways. We shall not surrender to inhuman degrading treatment. Dogs in India are treated better. Even the untouchables in India are given better treatment for their votes. But we shall remain true to righteousness as preached by Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji. The Indian hindu dogs will pay.
Amnesty need to go to Syria and Iraq where they are actually needed.
India is peaceful for all its law abiding Indians.
Weren’t the two Sikhs shot dead by police peaceful and law abiding? Those police officers have never been arraigned or charged with cold blooded murder in broad daylight despite Justice Katju’s findings and witness reports. I am a law abiding Indian citizen explain to me how life is peaceful for me when my Guru is being desecrated with impugnity every month in Punjab? Explain to me how my life is peaceful when my Sikh baache are condemned t ethic cleaning proportioned drug epidemic whilst their very ground water is polluted with Uranium to ensure genetic defects in their children? The Dalit who wishes to convert to another religion is not enjoying peace but being molested for daring to try and be a Christian. You have a prejudiced and blinkered view that blinds you to glaring injustice in my country.
It is illegal to attempt to Break India .
If any one attempts it then the Indian state will act .
We need to tell our youth that it may be put them in harm ways if they break laws of land.
It is NOT legal to torture people, even suspects who have NOT even been charged let alone found guilty or even sentenced for a potential crime. Just because you hate Sikhs does not allow you to torture them. You need to be sent to the international criminal court in the Hague if you think otherwise. Tell me where were you in Gujarat in 1992 and Delhi in 1984 because I suspect you were one of those who thought Sikhs and Muslims were fair game. You cannot torture people, even in the western democracy they look for third party soil in which to carry out extralegal torture and detention (extraordinary rendition to military regime countries with very porr human rights records and Guantanemo Bay) because they as democratic countries CANNOT torture on their own soil. When those countries are caught torturing people – an internally illegal practice punishable under international law in the Hague under the Human Rights Conventions – they are shamed into stopping. You don’t even want India to be ashamed of committing such crimes on its own soil against its own citizens! In a democracy you cannot follow a ‘MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG’ philosphy in order to justify torture and murder, extrajudical or not – this was a principle established at the Nuremburg trials when thousands of Nazis tried to argue that legally they should not be culpable for their crimes against humanity because they were only following the orders of the State and in the interest of the State. This is exactly why we need NGOs like Amnesty in India otherwise extremists like yourself will continue to abduct, torture and murder with total impugnity justifying criminality and inhumanity as patriotism. National Security does NOT trump natural justice and human rights. Please move to ISIS Syria as they like you believe otherwise.
What injustice is he facing may I know
He is being TORTURED by the police – don’t you understand that is illegal and immoral?! No, for you that is perfectly acceptable so long as the victim is a Sikh or from another religious minority or a Dalit. You want to charge him with a crime (and let’s face it you can charge anyone with sedition if they just say the word Azaadi – ask Amnesty Internal, oh wait, no you can’t because they have been kicked out of India so can’t even report on civil liberties let alone human rights abuses) then put him before a judge and jury with EVIDENCE. You don’t get to TORTURE anyone because that is against civilised democratic values. You think torture is okay by those in power you need to move to ISIS Syria or North Korea, China or some fascist Latin American country.
Fighting for justice and human rights is fundamental duty of sikhs . You wont understand what it means. Rajinder
We must teach our youth that it is illegal to break our Nation as per our Constitution.
We need to explain that it will put them in harms way if they try to fight the Nation state and may lead to the 1980- 1990 violent era where lot of valuable lives were lost.
‘Our ‘ youth? Still pretending to be a Sikh, eh? As if you give a damn how many or indeed how Sikh jawans are illegally killed. You are only interested in scaring Sikhs into submission. ‘Don’t lift your heads, keep your mouths shut, hands to your eyes and ears, let any abuse and injustice against the Sikh kaum happen or look how your children will be tortured to death’. Never mind that those same children are subjected to ethnic cleansing proportion drug epidemic and uranium polluted water, that in their depression they now see suicide as an answer to their despair or risking their lives desperately getting to foreign countries in order to escape the hopelessness of the corruption, nepotism and despotism in Punjab. Don’t dare to fight for your rights and break the law of the land? Tell that to George Washington, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi. It is a democratic right to resist unjust laws when they do not deliver justice to the people. Laws of the land are not sacrosanct because they are man made otherise you are arguing no black man should have opposed the pass laws in South Africa and no Jew against anti semite race laws in Nazi Germany. Laws are amended and repealed all the time when it is recognised that they have been unjust and draconian (Indian TADA and POTA ring a bell?). You would not even have a land with a constitution if Sikh Shaheeds Kartar Singh Sarabha, Bhagat Singh and Udham Singh had not broken the laws of the land. Justice is what a law is supposed to ensure and when it fails that basic test it is democratic duty to oppose it and draw attention to that law’s abuses. You hide behind letter of the law and not the spirit of law because you are content to abuse, torture and kill Sikhs if they do not submit to injustice which favours your particular Hinuduvta agenda to Brahminise the country religiously, culturally and historically. It is you and that pernicious thinking which threatens the integrity of my country.
What ever laws you want to change requires that you get politically elected and in. Parliament have it democratically changed.
Indian laws enshrined in Indian constitution are religiously neutral..
What law did George Washington change by being politicially elected? Nelson Mandela became leader of his country after he was released from prison (having served decades long prison sentence under the law) when the lawmakers were forced to accept their laws and way of life was morally wrong and unsustainable (confronted with marches, demonstrations and internal condemnation for their brutality in repressing the rights of its black citizens). Indian laws are religiously neutral? You have changed your tune. In another posting you are saying under Indian constitution it is illegal to ea beef because Hindus find it offensive even though SIkhs, Muslims, Dalits and Christians do not regard the cow as being sacred. Democracy permits citizens to protest and dissent through marches, demonstrations, strikes, debates on media, free speech and free association but you want people locked up on spurious sedition laws if they utter the word Azaadi and kick out international world renowned human rights and civil liberties observers such as Amnesty international. I want proper and full democracy not deferential demagoguery which was internally exposed at the Olympics by the behaviour of the Indian Sports Minister Vijay Goel who was reprimanded for his rude and pushy, unruly behaviour taking self promoting selfies and entering restricted areas as if he owned the place. This is a clear indication of the poor culture of polity in my country with politicians often being unfit to govern let alone having the discernment to change bad laws when they are fully concentrated on instead on enjoying perks of their position and ensuring that position is retained by seeking votebanks (as Badal did with heretic Ram Rahim).
What ever change you want will have to be done Democratically.
You will not be allowed to create anarchy , violence ,Hartal again in Punjab.
Once in 1980-1990 we just let you have your way and you virtually made Punjab into another Iraq or Syria .
So in Parliament have laws made which you desire how ever don’t intimidate normal citizens of PUNJAB.
I am talking about upholding DEMOCRATIC values. You CANNOT torture people. It is ILLEGAL and IMMORAL AND YOU CAn not do in a democracy. There is no law in India that allows the police to torture suspects. Think about it. If torture is allowed than you could be made to confess to absolutely any crime because you would say anything to stop the pain. That is why confessions obtained form torture are not acceptable in democratic countries and their courts summarily throw them out – as happened in Portugal. This means that there is no reason to torture a suspect for a confession (as it will always be both unreliable and obtained under duress which contravenes international human rights) other than for the sadistic pleasure of the tortures or because people like you think that you can instil fear into Sikhs by making an example of any Sikh you wish to torture. Such barbarism does not protect the peace but rather stirs bitterness and resentment so you are actually threatening the integrity of the country by trying to drag it back into the Kalyug dark ages of jungle law.
Also what do you mean by this ‘You will not be allowed to create anarchy , violence ,Hartal again in Punjab.’ Again? I have never done any violence against anybody. Another glaring example that you are ready to condemn me just because I am a Sikh. Tell me did Mahatma Gandhi’s guilty of wrong doing with the hartals he organised? I talk of my democratic right to protests, free speech, right of free association, access to media for debates, unhampered scrutiny under civil liberties and human rights NGO and you label them all as anarchy and violence? It is bad enough that you lack the historical and humanitarian knowledge of how to be a decent citizen but your instincts are not even democratic or patriotic.
As long as what you do is with in the law of land.
It is fine with all of us.
If the law of the land is unjust it must be opposed and repealed – that’s how both civilised democracies and Sikhs work and then it will be fine with the rest of us.
These wicked people are worse then Satan.