Kamal Nath summoned by US court for alleged role in anti-Sikh riots

NEW YORK: Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath has been summoned by a US federal district court for his alleged role in the 1984 anti sikh riots based on a case filed by a sikh outfit.

In the civil case filed under the Alien Torts Claims Act, the petitioners sought compensatory and punitive damages for several allegations including crimes against humanity, degrading treatment and wrongful killing.

However, Nath, who is incidentally here on a visit, said he was "surprised and appalled" as the case has been filed 25 years after the anti-Sikh riots in India

"I really have no clue about it. I don't have a basis and I don't know the authenticity. I don't know the validity. It was for the first time that I saw it," Nath told PTI when asked to comment on the case.

Nath has been served a notice and has to respond within 21 days failing which the court will give a default judgment on the matter.

The minister said that he would have to study the matter further.

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'84 riots: No action on one FIR

NEW DELHI: It's a development that could have wide ramifications in the ongoing trial of cases pertaining to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

In a major outcome of the work by a Delhi High Court-appointed panel of special prosecutors in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases, one of the prosecutors has come across an FIR registered in 1987 in Nangloi police station whose fate is still unknown.

The victims' association is alleging that the reason for the FIR not being pursued is because former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar figures in it as one of the accused. However, this charge can be established only in court.

Suspecting bungling, special prosecutor B S Joon has filed an application in the court of additional sessions judge V K Goyal seeking to know the status of FIR No 67/87, which was claimed to have been clubbed by Delhi Police with another FIR for a joint trial. The application, however, states that while the trial has already begun in the first FIR, FIR 67/87 has never met its logical conclusion. "From the record, it is not clear whether the accused arrayed in FIR 67/87 was summoned for prosecution or not during the trial of present case...Even witnesses in the FIR have not been summoned for their deposition in the court,'' Joon stated while asking the court to ascertain the status of the FIR.

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Ex-Sikh judge attacked in Canada

JALANDHAR: The viciousness created here over the excommunication of former Akal Takht Jathedar professor Darshan Singh Ragi has started turning bloody overseas with a former Sikh judge and now a prominent Brampton lawyer in Canada facing attempt on his life just outside a Sikh gurdwara last Friday by some persons who had gathered to protest a programme by him scheduled to be held there.

While the Peel regional police has termed the injuries on Manjit Singh Mangat (53) serious, Sukhwant Singh has been arrested and charged with attempt to murder and aggravated assault. Mangat is still in hospital, reported Brampton Guardian. Apart from the English media, the issue has generated a lot of heat in Punjabi media in Canada.

Current Akal Takht jathedar Gurbachan Singh, who had even given subjective comments against professor Ragi and SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar, along with some other pro-Dasam Granth leaders, had been giving acrimonious statements urging Sikhs to stop him from speaking on Panthic stages.

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PROUD TO BE A SIKH

Sikhs contribute 33% of total income tax,
67% of total charity fund,
45% of Indian Army,
+59000 Gurudwaras serve Langar to approximately 5900000 people everyday;
All this when Sikhs constitute only 1.4% of total INDIAN POPULATION.

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Bhai Sahib Bhai GurIqbal singh ji at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Krishna Nagar

Bhai Sahib Bhai Guriqbal singh ji recited Gurbani at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, F block, Krishna nagar on the Shaheedi Diwas of Baba Deep Singh ji. Many Sikh personalities were present at the gurdwara on the occassion. Jathedar Gurcharan Singh ji Gatka Master had arranged this programme.

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