Friday, April 8, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Demolition at Gurdwara Sis Ganj is an Attempt by AAP Government to Disturb Communal Harmony : DSGMC
New Delhi / 7 April 2016
The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) today thrashed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for attempting to disturb communal harmony and peace at Bhai Mati Das Chownk in Delhi by demolishing Piu at Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib. Manjit Singh G.K. DSGMC President and Manjinder Singh Sirsa General Secretary released the minutes of the meeting with the senior officials of public works department held on 5 April 2016 in which AAP MLA from Chandi Chownk Alka Lamba and project director of Shahjahanabad redevelopment corporation said that AAP is playing foul and demanded resignation from Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal for indulging in petty tactics.
Manjit Singh G.K. said that on 1 April Delhi CM held a meeting with public works department officers and asked them to remove encroachments at Chandni Chownk within one week in which Alka Lamba was also present. He said that on 5 April Lamba held a meeting with the officers of Power Corporation, Jal Board, Delhi Police and North Delhi Municipal Corporation and directed them to demolish Bhai Mati Das Chownk and Hanuman Mandir.
With Thanks : Media DSGMC
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
DSGMC President letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister to take away medals, withdraw promotions given from UP policemen convicted in Pilibhit fake encounter killing 11 innocent Sikh youths
New Delhi / 2 April 2016 The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) President Manjit Singh G.K. had written a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav demanding that the state government should withdraw promotions, perks and medals given to all 47 policemen of the state police who had been convicted by a CBI court for massacring innocent Sikhs 25 years ago in Pilibhit, UP during all these tenure.
Manjit Singh G.K. in the letter said that the police work with the mentality to suppress minorities to the extent of killing them. He adds that during the days of terrorism in Punjab state police killed thousands of innocent Sikh youths and also Pilibhit incident was a ploy of the police to kill innocent and take promotions. 11 innocent Sikhs from Gurdaspur, Punjab were done to death in a merciless manner by stopping the bus at Pilibhit and a fake encounter was shown when they were returning to their home in Punjab.
DSGMC President also said that these policemen had proved no less than the terrorists coming from outside country and attacking Indians and for minorities the protectors have become life takers.Raising voice against the convicted policemen G.K. said that all their retirement benefits be stopped and they be stripped of all their medal and commendations received during 25 years.
Manjit Singh G.K. also announced to honour former Judge of Delhi High court Justice (retired) R.S. Sodhi very soon who filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court after which it ordered the matter to be given to the CBI. He made it clear that the decision of the CBI court in Lukhnow convicting 47 policemen was not possible had Justice Sodhi not filed the PIL. G.K. also praised the officers of CBI who investigated the case and made a foolproof case in the court.
Speaking about the case DSGMC president said that out of 11 Sikh youths, for murder of 10 Sikh Sikhs 57 policemen were convicted by the court out of which 10 have died. One Sikh youth among the 11 is still missing even 25 years after the incident.
DSGMC president said that the weapons shown as recovered from the innocent Sikh youths killed in Pilibhit raise alarms for the minorities and he will take legal opinion from experts to initiate a new case to know from where those weapons came to police and how they were shown as recovered from the innocent Sikhs done to death by the police. He also demanded amendment in the Indian penal code that for recovery of weapons the statement policemen should not be accepted as evidence.
With Thanks : Media DSGMC
Monday, April 4, 2016
1991 Pilibhit fake encounter case: 47 policemen sentenced to life imprisonment
LUCKNOW: A special CBI court on Monday sentenced 47 policemen to life imprisonment for killing 11 Sikh pilgrims at three different spots in Pilibhit district in a fake encounter on July 12, 1991.
CBI court judge Lalloo Singh had convicted the accused cops under sections 302, 364, 365, 218 and 117 read with 120B of the IPC on Friday, adding that there was ample evidence against these persons for kidnapping and conspiring to kill the pilgrims in name of terrorists.
with thanks : Times of India : LINK : for detailed news.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Govt removes travel ban imposed on many overseas Sikhs
New Delhi, Apr 3 (PTI) Apparently bowing to pressure from ally Akali Dal ahead of next years Punjab polls, the Modi government has lifted travel bans imposed on a number of overseas Sikhs, who were allegedly involved in subversive activities in 1980s and 1990s and kept in watch list.
The blacklist, which was prepared at different levels by security agencies, has been maintained by the government on mostly Indian-origin people allegedly involved in subversive or anti-India activities abroad.
Such people, whose names figure in the blacklist, are barred from visiting India.
Some names have been removed from the blacklist after detailed discussions among various stakeholders, a Home Ministry official said.
The blacklist has been pruned, reportedly following Prime Minister Narendra Modis intervention after Akali Dal supremo and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal wrote a letter urging him to remove names of 36 Sikhs settled overseas from the travel ban.
Though the exact number of people whose names were removed from the blacklist is not known, officials said it was quite a sizeble number.
The move bears significance as assembly elections in Punjab are due early next year.
with thanks : IndiaToday : LINK : for detailed news.
47 cops convicted of killing 10 Sikhs in Pilibhit fake encounter
Tribune News Service
Lucknow, April 2
A CBI court yesterday convicted 47 policemen in the 1991 Pilibhit fake encounter in which 10 Sikh pilgrims were gunned down after describing them as terrorists.
Terming the encounter fake, CBI Special Judge Lallu Singh held the 47 policemen guilty. The quantum of punishment would be announced on April 4.
Twenty policemen who were present in the court were sent to jail. The court has issued arrest warrants against the remaining convicts.
The original chargesheet had held 57 policemen guilty. However, 10 of them died during the 25-year-long trial. In his order, the CBI special judge recounted the sequence of events. The incident took place on July 12, 1991, when the Uttar Pradesh police stopped a luxury bus in which a group of Sikh pilgrims were travelling.
The bus was stopped near Kachla Bridge in Badaun district where the police reportedly offloaded 10 pilgrims. They were made to board a mini bus. Later, the pilgrims were divided into three groups — two of four each and one of the remaining two. Separate police teams then took them to the jurisdiction of different police stations where they were killed in cold blood.
The lure of awards for killing so-called dreaded terrorists was reportedly the motive behind the killings. Some of the Sikh youth had terror-related cases pending against them which the police had come to know.
Following media reports questioning the police version of the encounter, Supreme Court advocate RS Sodhi had filed a PIL in the apex court seeking a CBI probe, which was ordered.
The chargesheet filed four years after the incident on June 12, 1995, had indicted 57 policemen under various sections of the IPC, including 302, for the fake encounter.
with thanks : Tribune : LINK
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