Continued From Part 1 | Part 2
We immediately routed towards Civil Hospital, had lunch in the hospital canteen and started waiting for ADGP Bhullar inside the Hospital premises. In the afternoon, ADGP Bhullar arrived and called us through the police constables deployed there. Initially, Bhai Jang Singh and Aunty Ji were allowed to go inside the emergency ward but quickly ADGP Bhullar also called me inside the hospital.
When I was called, I recall�Bhullar that said to me that if you people are demanding release of your fighters then how would it be a justice to those innocent police contingents who were killed specifically or accidentally by the militants. I had replied to him that before departing our homes, you and I worship the same lord. Our goals are same i.e. to ensure healthy and crime free society but we differ while acting. As per your duties, you act as per the orders from upper authorities without deliberating that it�s right or wrong but I act as per my analytical wisdom.
After having a small talk, we�arrived in the room where Bapu Ji was being force fed, Bapu Ji stared at us in suspicion. Physical condition of Bapu Ji at that time was revealing that he�was being treated brutally by the administration. Food pipes was stitched on his forehead so that Bapu Ji couldn�t remove them�and there was a bluish blot on his arm�due to brutal injections of needles. �Aunty Ji also noticed blood patches beneath Bapu Ji that was indicating the bleeding from his stool.
Following the formal exchange of words by us with Bapu Ji, ADGP Bhullar asked us to convince Bapu Ji to give up the struggle as the administration was ready to pursue talk on the issue. When Aunty Ji told Bapu Ji that commissioner has said this to us, Bapu Ji lost his temper and asked Aunty Ji, “You have also started singing their songs.” He angrily asked Aunty Ji to go out if she was expecting him to give up struggle. I remained silent at this occasion and was standing apart from Bapu Ji. �An Inspector ranked clean shaved officer was continuously observing my silence. �At last, he told me to go outside but Bhullar stopped him.
Ultimately, our motive to watch Bapu Ji�s condition was achieved as it was necessary to chalk out the next legal action in defense of Bapu Ji. Finally we came out.
(To be continued�)
Modern Indian state has burrowed lot of its laws from British Empire.
It needs to revisit them so that Genocide doer’s don’t get away Scot free.
It should fine tune them from ancient Indias wisdom.
Religious freedom should be a fundamental part in it.
The world should be divided into 2 camps
Fascists vs non fascists
Fanatic’s vs non fanatic’s.
‘Ancient India’s wisdom’ created the caste system. We don’t need ancient just the Sikhi principles set down by our Gurus in two hundred years is more than enough. It is not so much the laws modern Indian State has borrowed from British Empire but rather the old Brahmanical thinking which is the problem after all those same British Empire laws were also inherited by other British colonies and the UK itself and you do not see state sanctioned kidnapping and murder by British police of their citizens or their politicians thinking they are above the law in the modern day.
‘The world should be divided into 2 camps – Fascists vs non fascists, Fanatic�s vs non fanatic�s.’ The RSS with their Hinduvta agenda are both fascist and fanatics whilst Sikhs are in the other camp on both counts.
I agree we need to review our laws in light of today’s world and knowledge.
The laws. of Empire have evolved from Roman Empire and can be very harsh.
They give so much power to state that individuals and communities can be crushed and even annihilated in its name.
We must be guided by
“Moral laws” and not Empires law.
We need a new set of laws which are in tune with today’s time and aspiration of its people.
Ruling a nation based on EMPIRES law leads to problems like above.
States are capable of subjugating there citizens into submission based on Empires Law.
The TADA law and its equally discredited successor law Prevention of Terrorism Activities Act were created by Indians for Indians nothing whatsoever to do with foreign empire rules left over for the Indian sarkar to use out of bad habit. TADA criminalised free speech, allowed detention without charge for a year, police custody for 60 days without charge (which led to torture), secret trials, and the presumption of guilt on those detained, no appeal apart from the supreme court and the acceptance of police evidence including the word of a policeman and any confession they produced. It was a legal travesty of justice which gives a lie to your insistence that law must be abided by no matter what and that India’s unjust laws are just the relics of old empires. 76000 Punjabis (all Sikhs) had been arrested under this law by 1994 and only 2% were ever convicted even under these draconian conditions with their very poor standards of evidence. India cannot hide its legal excesses with excuses that they were just slavishly implementing laws established by Moghul and British rule – it needs to take ‘mea culpa’ responsibility for its own sins against its own people. You can have any law you want so as long as it always recognises civil liberties (such as minority rights and religious freedom) and human rights and utterly reject the notion of ‘anti-national’ reactionary laws.
The issue is that India was a British construct.
The Empire has gone but its inheritors are following the same laws that the Empire used against Native Indians.
The best part is the news channels don’t even report it or discuss it.
Rulers of Delhi of all dispensions have been harsh on Sikhs at some or other point.
Be it
Mughals
Britishers
1980 -90 India.ruler’s.
I am glad to see after all my lecturing on historical facts that you have finally accepted that the Indian Sarkar has been responsible for brutal oppression of Sikhs in the manner of its forebears the British and Moghul Empire. i.e. without provocation and with malice for the sake of repressing the minority community most capable of resisting their despotism.
The Law needs to be modified by law makers to make it more humane.
If some one has completed his punishment for his crimes he should be allowed to go.
How do you expect ‘law makers’ to modify the law when they themselves are inhumane and the laws they institute are unjust in the first instance? That then begets the morality of imprisoning the accused (let alone releasing them when their sentences are complete) under an unjust judicial system which is clearly prejudiced against Sikhs. Don’t believe me – Indira Gandhi’s Sikh assassins were hanged whilst those Hindu Tamil assassins of her even worse mass-murdering son Rajiv were given the judgement of life sentence then reduced to time served by Madras High Court. This court judgement to release them was only overturned by Central Government Supreme Court when it became obvious that such glaringly different treatment to Sikhs and Hindus could not be publicly defended. All political Sikh prisoners of conscience should be released immediately and their convictions quashed as being unsafe in the light of revelations of what the Punjab police has been up to in the past thirty years – which I would remind you those same courts are refusing to hear when whistle-blowers like Gurmeet Pinky come forward to confess crimes / atrocities they have committed in the uniform of police and authority of the State. Then and only then can you start to rebuild confidence in a judicial system which is as sullied and corrupted as the political system in Punjab.