Sukhbir Badal Shrugs Off Killing of Punjab Youth in 80s

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Dismissing killings of hundreds of youths in cold blood is against the spirit of ‘Sadbhawana’

JALANDHAR (Baljeet Kaur) Punjab Deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal who also holds the portfolio for home affairs and justice cannot bury his head in sand when killings of hundreds of youths by Punjab Police during militancy in fake encounters are staring him in the face.

No matter how lofty or untenable are the revelations made by former police cop Gurmeet Singh Pinky in a series of interviews to a senior journalist Kanwar Sandhu about the elimination of Sikh youths at the hands of trigger happy cops Sukhbir cannot simply just shrug it off.

Serious Sukhbir BadalBPinkyy saying that since everything being alleged by Pinky occurred at the time when Punjab was governed under the central rule so hence it was the duty of the congress government to get the allegations probed doesn’t match up and gives an impression as if Sukhbir is only abdicating his responsibility as a home minister.

Such a position and attitude also belie the very spirit of Sadbhawana rallies which Sukhbir is so laboriously organising all over Punjab to send across a message to all sections that how the government under constitutional oath is committed to protect their fundamental rights including the right to life.

The only plausible reason why Sukhbir is dragging feet to order a probe appears to be the alleged involvement of senior police officers who have been occupying important positions during the tenure of his own SAD-BJP government including DGP Sumedh Singh Saini.

Pinky in his series of interviews reveal several instances in graphic details alleging direct involvement of police officers such as Sumedh Singh Saini, Shiv Kumar and BS Gill in the killings Sikh youths in cold blood.

Now Saini being the handpicked police officer of Sukhbir Badal for the top job it would not be easy for the latter to hand him over to an investigating agency especially at a time when the elections are around the corner and he needed him the most.

Sukhbir understood the significance of Saini when he had appointed him as Punjab DGP in 2102 knowing well that the top cop was facing charges of abduction and murder.

The CBI in 2000 had already chargesheeted Saini and others for the abduction and murder of three persons from Ludhiana in 1994. Later the CBI court had even framed charges against Saini & others.

The need for an independent probe also becomes imperative as Pinky alleged to have paid Rs. 50 Lakh to Uma Shankar, a security personnel deployed outside Saini’s residence in sector 16 at Chandigarh.

Such an allegation only defies Sukhbir’s frequent claims of providing a corruption free governance to people of Punjab.

When Sukhbir Badal sent his emissary Manjit Singh GK, president of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) and a delegation of members to United Kingdom and UAE countries in 2013 the biggest demand and the first pre-condition of the Sikh Diaspora to restore their confidence in Badals was to remove Saini at once.

However  Sukhbir remained adamant on his choice and was forced to remove Saini only recently on October 15. Sukhbir had to do it under immense pressure from various Sikh organisations who were protesting against the series of sacrilege incidents which the Punjab police under the command of DGP Saini failed to prevent.

Saini created yet another furore among the Sikh masses when he ordered to pick up two brothers Rupinder Singh & Jaswinder Singh for their alleged hand in the desecration of Guru Granth Sahib. Saini’s police even claimed to have unearthed a foreign hand in the sacrilege incidents.

However when the police failed to make any headway and were unable to establish the role of the two brothers in the sacrilege they had no option but to release the latter from the custody.

AAP MP Bhagwant Mann raises the issue in Parliament

After failing to get a positive response from the SAD-BJP regime, AAP MP from Sangrur Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday raised the issue in the Parliament demanding a probe by the National Judicial Commission.

Mann said in the parliament that the serious allegations made by Pinky about the involvement of senior police officers into elimination of Sikh youths can not be brushed aside and needs a thorough probe to bring the guilty cops to justice.

Mann said both Congress and SAD-BJP governments remained in power in Punjab for the last nearly two decades but none tried to get the extra judicial killings probed.

In fact both the Akali and congress governments are guilty of posting such officers on important positions during their respective tenures.

Captain Amarinder Singh too demands probe into Pinky’s allegations

Recently Punjab congress chief, Captain Amarinder Singh in a press conference at Jalandhar had raised the issue and asked the Akali government to get the issue inquired.

Amarinder also said that in case the congress formed the next government in Punjab it would get the allegations of Pinky Investigated.

Mann however is not convinced. ” What was Amarinder doing from 2002 to 2007 when he was the chief minister. Why didn’t he get such issues probed during his tenure. In fact he also gave prize postings to all those officers who are being alleged to have been involved in extra judicial killings”, said Mann.

Mann also demanded in the Parliament that the probe must be done on the pattern of South Africa where such allegations of police highhandedness were probed and guilty police officers were brought to justice.

23 COMMENTS

  1. General of Police S M Mushrif was the Guardian of Law of India .
    His views on Ramayan has no relevance to the

    “TRUTH OF RAMAYAN”

    • No, his views don’t matter only verifiable historical and archaelogical evidence matters which does not exist to prove the existence of fantastical creatures such as multi-headed demons and flying monkey kings. YOu want to believe those things, that is your right as a HIndu and as a Sikh we have and will continue to defend your right to believe such things. However you have no right to try and foist such heretical (from Sikh doctrine point of view) on Sikhs and falsely claim Sikhism believes these things too. We do not. Sikhs do not celebrate Diwali they commemorate an actual historical event that occurred at Diwali time when Guru Hargobind was released from prison by a Moghul Emperor but refused to go without taking other political prisoners with him. This event which we mark with candles is called Bandi Chorr Divas. We do not believe in Rama, Sita, Hanuman or Ravan.

    • Why do you keep persisting on blaming foreign governments and even dead empires for the crimes committed by and in the name of the Indian State? What has the dead Roman and British Empires got to do with the genocidal pogroms against the Sikhs instigated, carried out, sponsored, approved, sanctioned, covered up and to this day defended by the Indian State (its politicians from all parties, its police and judiciary are all guilty of failing their sacred duty as much as the mobs encouraged, armed and given free reign to murder Sikhs with impugnity). As for the American Empire we wouldn’t even know some of the facts of these atrocities if we didn’t have the Snowden leaks about what American intelligence was picking up from its embassy in Delhi in 1984 about how much of the violence was orchestrated by Rajiv Ghandi’s party. And again for the British Empire you wish to pass the buck onto – it is thanks to their 30 year release policy of cabinet papers that we know that Indira Gandhi traitorously asked a foreign and former imperial power for military assistance in attacking Darbar Sahib more than six months before it happened (contradicting Indian army who said they had to do Operation Bluestar because time was so pressing). Where is the Indian Empire’s policy towards releasing governmental papers? They burn them and lose them and march into the museum and library of Darbar Sahib to loot its relics to try and rewrite Sikh history.

  2. RSS is a terrorist organization modeled on the Nazi Party of Germany.

    Ramayan and Mahabharat are just stories and nothing else. There is no evidence whatsoever that they ever occurred.

    • Former Maharastra Inspector General of Police S M Mushrif termed the BJP’s ideological mentor RSS as India’s top terrorist organisation in November 2015. He claims that RSS activists have been indicted in at least 13 terror cases across India. “RSS activists have been charge sheeted in at least 13 cases of terror acts in which RDX explosives has been used. IF organisations like Bajrang Dal are taken into account then the number of such cases goes up to 17””, said Mushrif.“The RSS is India’s number one terrorist organisation, there is no doubt on this” said Mushrif, referring to the 2007 Mecca Masjid bombing in Hyderabad, the 2006 and 2008 Malegaon blasts in Maharashtra and the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings among others. “The RSS as a terror organisation has nopthing to do with political power. IT is immaterial which party is in power. It is the system that is working, it’s the Brahminical system. And when I say Brahminical, it doesn’t mean the Brahmin, it’s the mentality, the attitude to dominate and oppress” he said.

    • Lord Ram Existed and Ramayan is True .
      You may not agree that does not make any difference
      Guru Granth Sahib has a lot of reference to “GOD RAM”

      • You have already admitted you are a RSS member in a previous posting and indeed were proud of it. You said ‘SO what if I am RSS member what wrong with it?’

      • I have already explained to you references in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji which mention Hindu deities are there for allusional purposes only as the Gurus were preaching to a predominantly Punjabi HIndu population who were largely illiterate and had no other frames of reference to comprehend spiritual ideas. WE call God ‘Waheguru’ and not Ram because Sikhism is clear that God is only one and has never existed in avatars of deities (gods, goddesses et al) and never been present on the face of the earth in human form (so again ruling out Ram, Krishna etc). It should be noted that Sri Guru Granth Sahib also makes references to ‘Allah’ as the Gurus added hymns from both Muslim and Hindu bhagats when they were talking about God in waythat agreed with SIkh theology. No independently verifiable historical and archaelogical evidence exists to prove the existence of fantastical creatures such as multi-headed demons and flying monkey kings (which also fly in the face of physics, physiological and anatomical knowledge). YOu want to believe those things, that is your right as a HIndu and as a Sikh we have and will continue to defend your right to believe such things. However you have no right to try and foist such heretical (from Sikh doctrine point of view) on Sikhs and falsely claim Sikhism believes these things too. We do not. Sikhs do not celebrate Diwali they commemorate an actual historical event that occurred at Diwali time when Guru Hargobind was released from prison by a Moghul Emperor but refused to go without taking other political prisoners with him. This event which we mark with candles is called Bandi Chorr Divas. We do not believe in Rama, Sita, Hanuman or Ravan or any other Gods and Goddesses. Waheguru is One God only – there are no avatars of Him.

  3. 1980 Bhinderwala followers rebelled. against Indian/Punjab state.

    Killing then happened on both sides.

    Old cliche

    All is Fair in love and war.

    • ‘Harinder’ (not his real name) is a RSS troll who believes in kidnapping, torture, fake encounters, extra judicial killings against Sikhs. Again and again he posts on these website to try and keep Sikhs bowed down and accepting of injustices and abuses done against them. ‘All is fair in love and war’ and ‘we were only following orders’ was the defence Nazi SS used in their trials at Nuremburg to defend their human rights abuses and atrocities against people they felt were undesirables and enemies of the State as well as partisans. This defence that you are still extolling (and well you might as you ‘Harinder’ are a self confessed member of the RSS which is modelled on Hitler’s SS) was rejected and those ‘defenders of the fatherland’ were found guilt of having committed crimes against humanity. I have explained to ‘Harinder’ and other human rights violation and genocide apologists again and again why such a stance is indefensible and actually treasonable against the ideals of India but their mission is not to debate (as ‘Harinder’ will never answer any of the responses I give to his leading questions nor answer questions I put to him based on historical fact) but rather persists with trying to castrate the Sikh psyche in wishing to resist tyranny and Indira Gandhi was a tyrant. She was found guilty of fraud by an Indian Court but rather than protest her innocence legally she illegally declared a state of emergency and imprisoned political opponents and neutered the news media and engaged in anti social campaigns against the Indian populace such as forced sterilisation (which disproportionately targeted the poor particularly the so-called untouchable class in Hindu society. Her image was so badly damaged and the political resistance to her was notably great from Punjab so she engineered a confrontation with the Sikhs in order to prove to the Indian electorate that she was still a strong leader in the run up to general elections. She then committed effectively an act of treason by going cap in hand to the former imperialist power Britain (who shaheeds Bhagat Singh and Udham Singh had given their lives fighting against) and asking for military assistance to plan an armed assault on the Darbar Sahib! The British PM Margaret Thatcher – keen to put through the sale of a defunct British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal to India – was more than happy to help and dispatched a SAS (elite special forces) Major to India to plan such an assault in January 1984 – a full six months before the attack. This plan was not in the end used but the point is Indira Gandhi asked a foreign former imperialist Government to help plan the killing of Indian citizens on Indian soil – this is beyond dispute as luckily the British have a 30 year policy of revealing cabinet documents. ‘Harinder’ (I know you are not a Sikh so asking you to have the courage of your convictions and actually post under your real name won’t work) persists in presenting Bhindranwale as a bogeyman when he was really a marginal figure who was made into a shaheed of the Sikh Quam by being martryed – if there really was a need to arrest him why was he arrested and then released beforehand and why not the Darbar Sahib surrounded by Sikh soldiers (who were in actuality largely confined to barracks) and its water and electricity cut off and the thousands of pilgrims visiting the Darbar Sahib that day allowed to leave? As a direct consequence of the illegal polices of the State towards SIkhs in the Punjab with kidnapping, false arrest, harassment of relatives, fake encounters, torture, rapes, extra judicial killings (just see what one of the men who did these things admits to – Gurmeet Pinky) compare what has happened to the Punjab from 1980 to present day. Back then Punjab was bread basket of India now it is on the verge of bankruptcy (whilst its BJP stooges the Badals have engorged and enriched themselves to the point where they are running out of Swiss banks to deposit their spoils from monopolies, patronage and alleged involvement in drug trafficking), its ground water is heavily polluted (not just by pesticides but by uranium when the PUnjab does not even possess a single nuclear power plant) which correlates with a proportional rise in both infant mortality, genetic abnormalities and disabilities in newborns, the State has the highest rate both of female infanticide and drug addiction in India (the latter is particularly galling when you consider the border with Pakistan is the most heavily defended) and to top it all Sikh scriptures are being torn in the streets of the Sikh homeland and when Sikhs protest they are in turn shot dead by police officers who are in turn absolved of any culpability. Not to mention the massive migration of Sikh youth out of the country. None of these things were happening in Punjab up to 1984. ‘Harinder’ your racist bigotry towards the Sikhs revealed in your complacent defence of the indefencible reveals that you and your RSS minded Badals are traitors to India – there is no way its greatest, foremost Shaheeds Bhagat SIngh and Udham Singh would have given up their lives for what you stand for and you should feel shame.

      • 1) RSS and the Nazis are not at similar
        Ideology Book of Nazis is : Mein Kampf
        Ideology Book for RSS is Mahabharat and Ramayana.
        So your comparison is inappropriate.

        2) As for me being an RSS member I will leave you to keep guessing .
        3) All is fair in love and war is a Factual statement .
        If you don’t like kidnapping, false arrest, harassment of relatives, fake encounters, torture, rapes, extra judicial killings the my advise is

        Don’t pick up Guns against the State or Nations or Empire .They can make a mince meat of any Rebel Group

        Obey laws of Nations and Empire and live happily on Planet Earth for another 4 billion years before is burnt up by the
        SUN.

        1) http://www.space.com/7084-life-earth-escape-swelling-sun.html

        2) How will the Sun die and what is the fate of the earth !
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKv1igo1Cyc

      • You have already admitted you are a RSS member in a previous posting and indeed were proud of it. You said ‘SO what if I am RSS member what wrong with it?’

      • Frankly speaking the events of 1980 -1990 and its main actors were Jarnail Singh Bhinderwla, Indira Gandhi, Zail Singh ,KPS Gill , and whole lot of them .

        That story is over and a closed chapter with all these men getting the community a

        1) GENOCIDE
        2) BLOWN UP AKAL TAKTH

        IF you ask me Frankly

        “I DONT CARE” and Time to move in with life because this era to has passed and behind us for we the future looking people..

        Happy stay in a “TIME WRAP”

      • You don’t care about human rights abuses against Sikhs – then why the hell are you posting on a Sikh news website? And the term you can’t even spell is Time Warp and I imagine you would apply that to Sikhs obeying the will of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and keeping the identity of the Khalsa – Kirpan, uncut kesh etc. The story of 1984 is not a closed chapter except for genocide apologists like you, for the rest of us it is an open wound and continuing affront to India’s honour. Martin Luther King said of the civil rights for Black Americans that the arc of history is long but it bends towards justice. SO it is for human rights and civil liberties for Sikhs.

      • RSS is inspired by Ramayana and Bhagwat Geeta.Nazis were inspired by Mein Kampf .So both are not comparable at all.

        As for all is fair in love and war is a factual statement .

        If you don’t like kidnapping, false arrest, harassment of relatives, fake encounters, torture, rapes, extra judicial killings .
        My advise is Don’t Pick up Guns against State , Nation or Empire . The world can pulverize any Rebel group.

      • Harinder’s advice ‘My advise is Don’t Pick up Guns against State , Nation or Empire . The world can pulverize any Rebel group’ – so that means you disavow the Shaheeds Bhagat Singh and Udham Singh that fought and died to create a free India. Great advice from a non-Sikh – let the Sikhs do all the fighting and dying for your liberation whilst you cower in fright and accept abuses, explains why the subcontinent of India was under foreign subjugation for so many centuries until the Sikh religion was created to defend you.

      • RSS is specially modelled on the SS of the Nazi regime right down to the ridiculous brain washing and rewriting / mythologizing of the purity their respective country’s history and race. Mein Kampf was written Nazis were inspired by Hitler after he had both joined and become leader of the National Socialists (Nazis) when he was in prison. The national socialists were initially a ragtag bunch of malcontent thugs angry at their poor self image (they had just lost the first world war and looked to blame a religious minority in their country for this – the Jews) which clashed with their egotistic sense of their place in history (so called noble and pure teutonic Aryan peoples) – all of that sound a little familiar RSS ‘Harinder’?

      • RSS and Nazis have nothing in common .
        You need to study about

        1) Ramayana
        2)Bhagvat Geeta
        3) Mein Kampf

        Read and you will know the difference and then we will discuss .
        No point parroting statement with out Reading and understanding these epic books.

      • If you want to read epic fictional books try Homer’s Iliad or Beowulf as both comparable to Ramayana and Mahabharat in terms of moral fable. Personally I prefer Lord of the Rings – it’s got dragons in it too.

      • Also Mein Kampf is NOT an epic book as you have stated RSS Harinder ; it was dictated by Hitler to his acolyte Rudolph Hess in prison and is a poorly written, rambling, incoherent diatribe full of hate speech. Stick to Lord of the Rings – although the dragon is in the Hobbit, but the Balrog and ring wraiths riding their flying steeds are just as fanciful.

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