Vancouver, March 31 – Police have identified a young Sikh man who was stabbed to death in a birthday party at Cloverdale on the outskirts of the city Sunday.
Twenty-one-year-old Buta Singh Sangha was stabbed when a fight broke out between two neighbouring families over the birthday party celebrations. The Punjab-born victim was invited as a guest by the family celebrating the birthday of their baby when the dispute with the neighbours started.
Police said Sangha was stabbed when the dispute turned violent. He was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
A 32-year-old man with criminal past has been arrested for the crime. Police said the alleged killer, Adrian Skara, was also a guest at the other neighbour’s house when he stabbed Sangha.
Many people had called police when the dispute started. But before cops could come, it turned violent leading to stabbing of the Sikh man.
‘This incident remains as an altercation between neighbours and does not have any links to gangs, drugs or organized crime,” police told the media.
More than a 100 Punjabi-origin young men have been killed here over the years in rivalry among drug gangs. Most of these cases remain unresolved despite the creation a special homicide unit by police.
Vancouver and its satellite towns of Surrey, Delta, Richmond and Abbotsford have the largest concentration of the Punjabi community in Canada. The area is known for its secret harvesting of marijuana which is smuggled into the US in exchange for cocaine.
Apart from the deaths of over Punjabi-origin youths, many Punjabi truckers have also been arrested for their complicity in smuggling.
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SikhsIndiaA city court Monday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) why it did not examine three persons named by a witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit asked the CBI to be ready April 1 with their answers for not examining all the witnesses.
Rebecca R. John, counsel for a riot victim's widow, Lakhwinder Kaur, said: 'The CBI did not examine all the witnesses. There are three more people named by witness Surinder Singh who have not been examined by the CBI.'
Kaur's husband Badal Singh was killed during the riots in November 1984. She claims Tytler's alleged involvement in the killing.
Questioning the CBI closure report in the case, John added that there are discrepancies in the report and the case should be investigated further.
'The court should either discard the (closure) report or send it for further investigation,' he said.
During the two-hour long hearing, counsel questioned the CBI's decision to reject the statements made by witnesses Surinder Singh and Jasbir Singh, living in California.
The CBI completed its arguments on the closure report by Feb 10 and gave a clean chit to Tytler April 2. The agency claimed there was insufficient evidence against him.
The report said that Surinder and Jasbir had made statements to frame Tytler.
The alleged role of Tytler in a case relating to the killing of three people Nov 1, 1984, in the aftermath of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, was re-investigated by the CBI after the court refused to accept a closure report against him in December 2007.
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Notably, the list was prepared when terrorism was at its peak in Punjab in the eighties and mid-nineties. A large number of disenchanted Sikhs had left the country during that period and are presently settled in Canada, United Kingdom and the United States. While many of them actively took up the cause of Khalistan through militant outfits like Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF) and Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), others were involved indirectly.
Sources said the Home ministry was currently in the process of identifying those who got involved with these groups in the rush of emotions at that time and have since distanced themselves from the movement. Officials admit there were several persons on the list who had made an occasional “anti-India” speech or attended an occasional meeting of separatist groups, and now their names would be struck off.
“We will only retain the hardcore elements on the list and these should not account for more than 50-odd names,” said a senior Home ministry official, adding the sifting was being done on the basis of intelligence reports.
Sikh NRIs and political parties like the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Punjab Congress had been pressing the Centre to review and revise the list on the plea that it was prepared “arbitrarily” and that the situation in Punjab had improved after those dark days of militancy.
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