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This picture is rare....found on another forum

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Nice find Freed here is another one of Sant Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindrawale: Original caption: Sant (saint) Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the militant leader of Akali Sikhs who have been defying the federal government and demanding political independence with a separate Sikh state. Bhindranwale has made the famed Golden Temple his headquarters where police has no access. Image: © Bettmann/CORBIS Date Photographed: April 30, 1984 Location Information: Amritsar, India

You got to watch this video, Amazing site to see so many GurSikhs at Akal Takhat Sahib at Sarbatt Khalsa (1986), even though there was a curfew on, True Sikhs ready to lay down their lives for Sikhi: http://www.ektaone.com/saintsoldiers/ss/vi...khalsa86ddt.wmv (Right click - Save Target As to download)

Punjab Police Frames Innocent Sikh Gentlemen as Terrorists By SSNews Nov 22, 2005, 23:22 Always hungry for media lime light by hook or crook, Punjab Police has once again shown its true colours by framing innocent Sikh Men as Ultras. Yesterday SSP Jagraon RK Jaiswal held a press conference and decalred that they have captured Babbar Khalsa Militants and gave a big concocted story of conspiracy and terror plans supposedly being hatched by the caught ‘militants’. Today at the first Judicial hearing in the Jagraon Courts Complex, residents of Maksudrhan, the native village of the framed innocents, were present in great numbers to tell the truth and blow the cover on the fake stories put forward by the Punjab Police. Village Sarpanch (Head of Village Council) Thakur Singh said that Police picked up Bhagwant Singh and Chamkaur Singh from their respective houses just a day before the press conference by the Jagraon SSP. In the press conference the SSP stated that the ‘militants’ were caught at an isolated place alongwith arms and ammunition where they were planning their ‘action’. Village elders further added that the police came in plain clothes and were heavily armed. The council head stated that these two innocents have no link whatsoever with Babbar Khalsa and the Police in order to score brownie points and have media attention are making a scape goat out of these innocent citizens. Advocate Gurcharan Singh Bal while talking to the press told that Bhagwant Singh is a member of the Village Council and is active in the Village Welfare Society and is a model citizen. For the last two years he has been involved in each meeting of the Village Council and all the decisions of the Council carry his signature which is a proof enough that he was not traveling here there and every where as per the fake story of Punjab Police circulated in media. Elaborating further he informed that Bhagwant Singh does not have any truck and cannot drive any thing else than a motorbike. All these facts point to various holes in the fake tale put forward by senior officials of Punjab Police.

http://www.sikhsangat.org/publish/article_585.shtml Hawara’s counsel and Human Rights Lawyer attacked By TNS Nov 15, 2005, 02:24 Mr Arvind Thakur, a human rights activist who blew the lid off the alleged “benami†land transactions of certain politicians and police officers in Kansal village bordering Chandigarh, escaped an assault late last night. While Mr Thakur, who happens to be the counsel of Jagtar Singh Hawara, Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), escaped unhurt, his Esteem car (HR-03-B-8020) was damaged by the assailant. The attack on Mr Thakur, a practising advocate in the district courts, sparked off protests from the lawyers with a delegation of the District Bar Association (DBA) led by its secretary Jaskaran Singh calling on the SSP, seeking strict action against the culprit. The general house of the DBA met in the morning and decided to suspend work for the day. According to a complaint submitted to the SSP, it was alleged that at least four armed persons came to the house of Mr Thakur in Sector 44 here in a Scorpio around 11 p.m. when was locking the front gate. Even as the assailants tried to attack him, he took shelter behind the hedge. When he raised the alarm, the attackers fled but not before damaging his car. It may be recalled that Mr Thakur and a senior advocate Mr A.S. Chahal, had received a threatening letter a couple of days back. The complainant alleged that despite the fact that the advocate, accompanied by certain advocates visited the Sector 34 police station last night and this morning, no case has been registered so far. The police said it was investigating the matter. The Lawyers of Human Rights International (LHRI) president, Mr AS Chahal, has demanded a high-level probe into the incident.

Dhan Guru ! Dhan Guru De Pyare !

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051011/edit.htm#2 Beasts in khaki When policemen guard rapists The Punjab Police’s record of human rights violations is second to none. Its gallant personnel have done everything from killing to maiming to tattooing “Jebkatri†on the forehead of women pickpockets. But even that sick performance pales into insignificance before what a few policemen did in Amritsar on October 6. They were on guard duty with two convicts serving a sentence in the high-security central jail. Instead of taking them to hospital for treatment as it was shown on paper, they connived with the convicts, took them to an abandoned house, where the convicts and their accomplices allegedly gangraped the estranged wife of one of them. While the victim, allegedly brought there by misleading her that her imprisoned husband was on deathbed, was being raped, the guards reportedly drank liquor provided by the rapists. The incident is too shocking for words and can shake the confidence of the public in the police force. Policemen are supposed to be protectors of innocent citizens. The worst that one can expect from them is dereliction of duty. But their joining hands with the criminals is the ultimate ignominy. By doing so, they have proved to be as bad criminals as the rapists. This is an extreme case but the police is already notorious for various such dark activities. They continue to defy the law mainly because many of them get away with minor or no punishment. One shudders to think what will happen if even the Amritsar beasts get away lightly. The police-criminal nexus has become an unbearable menace. For a price, policemen allow convicts all kinds of facilities which allow them to function freely even from jails. Shifting a criminal to a hospital is just an excuse for sending him on an unofficial parole. The police has arrested three policemen reportedly involved in the grisly incident, while another is still absconding. Justice demands that all of them must be brought to book at the earliest and given the harshest possible punishment.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...tacodalogin=yes Inquiry finds Indian troops did killings Pakistan militants falsely blamed Cover-up included false DNA tests SHAIKH AZIZUR RAHMAN SPECIAL TO THE STAR New Delhi—Troops hunting terrorists killed and buried Indian civilians and passed them off as Pakistani militants responsible for killing Sikhs in Kashmir, an inquiry by India's top investigating agency has revealed. When villagers' protests led to the bodies being exhumed, the army doctored DNA tests to show that the remains were those of militants from across the border, India's Central Bureau of Investigation said in its final report two weeks ago. Human rights groups frequently report abuses by security forces in the Himalayan territory claimed by both India and Pakistan. But this was the first case of its kind handed over to the agency for investigation. The bureau found four army officers guilty of killing the civilians. Hours before then-U.S. president Bill Clinton visited India in March 2000, 35 Sikhs were killed in Chattisinghpura village in Kashmir by suspected Islamic militants in army uniforms. India blamed Pakistan-based terrorists for the attack. Four days later, 17 Muslim residents from three neighbouring villages disappeared. Simultaneously, reports emerged that five Pakistani terrorists involved in the massacre of the Chattisinghpura Sikhs had been killed by the army. Juma Khan, a 45 year old from Brari Angan, was among the villagers picked up without explanation by the soldiers. "I thought they would not harm him because he was a family man and was not involved in anything," Khan's wife, Roshan Jan, said recently. Two days after Khan's arrest, the army said its sharpshooters had shot dead five "foreign militants" during a "ferocious encounter." There were no autopsies before the bodies were buried, but locals determined from clothing and personal items recovered at the gravesites that the bodies were those of missing villagers. As violent protests raged around Kashmir, local officials ordered exhumations. Although the bodies were charred, the army fatigues in which they were clothed were mysteriously intact. Relatives of a local cattle trader said his body was headless. There were no bullet wounds in another corpse. The chopped-off nose and chin of a shepherd was discovered in a grave holding another body. Farooq Abdullah, then chief minister of the state, ordered DNA tests to determine identities. But that plan came under a cloud when two forensic laboratories said DNA samples from relatives of the dead men had been tampered with. "In one case, blood samples were said to belong to the mother and daughter of one victim. But not only were the samples male in origin, both belonged to the same man," a senior scientist at Calcutta's Central Forensic Science Laboratory told investigators. In three cases, samples allegedly collected from female relatives were found to have come from men. Another woman's sample contained the DNA of two individuals. Two doctors involved in collecting the samples were suspended by the government, and a new team, headed by a senior police officer, collected fresh blood samples in April 2002. The new DNA tests established the dead men were "not foreign terrorists, as contended by the forces, but innocent civilians," a CBI investigator said this week. The agency concluded the doctors, under pressure from the army, had tampered with the first DNA tests. "We have irrefutable evidence of at least seven such fake encounters, where Indian security forces killed 13 innocent Indian villagers in the last five years and passed them off as Pakistani militants," said Pervez Imroz, a human rights lawyer who spearheads the Association of the Parents of Disappeared Persons. "However, since 1989 more than 8,000 Kashmiris have disappeared from the custody of the security forces and we know nothing of their whereabouts."

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050926/punjab1.htm#6 Dalit front rejects Nanavati report Varinder Walia Tribune News Service Amritsar, September 25 Dismissing the Nanavati Commission report on the 1984 anti-Sikh violence as an ‘eyewash’ the National Minority and Dalit Front (NMDF) today said that the document and the Action Taken Report were aimed at protecting Congress leaders. “It’s an incomplete report and the Sikh community rejects it. This is nothing but a false report which is far from facts,†said the NMDF at a national seminar, held on the Nanavati Commission report, here. It said the Nanavati report had “totally belied the hopes†of the victims and charged that the Centre’s Action Taken Report “diluted†the recommendations of the judicial panel. Ms Jaya Jaitley, a former president of the Samata Party, in her presidential address gave spine-chilling eyewitness accounts of anti-Sikh violence and described these as organised, engineered at the behest of the then ruling Congress . She said the police had acted not only as mute spectator but also helped rioters to kill members of the Sikh community. The Sikhs were picked up from houses with the help of voter lists. The “great tamashaâ€, which had no parallel in the history of democratic India continued for 72 hours and Congress leaders carried out the carnage to ‘please’ their high-ups in the party .She said the riots were a black spot on the fair name of Indian democracy. She said being a commoner; she plunged into the rehabilitation of the victims but senior leaders like Arun Nehru had ignored her appeals to deploy Army to stop the killing of innocent persons. She said when all her efforts to stop the violence failed, she then decided to join active politics to cleanse the system. National president of the NMDF, Sewa Singh Sekhwan, who is former Akali Minister said that the findings of the Nanavati report was cruel joke played with the victims of anti-Sikh violence. The speakers, including Mr M.S. Rahi, Bhai Baldev Singh, Chief, Akhand Kirtani Jatha, Mr Darbara Singh Kahlon, Bibi Kiranjot Kaur, executive member, SGPC and Dr Gurbachan Singh Bachan, a former SGPC secretary, said that it was most unfortunate that the victims of 1984 violence were not given justice even after 21 years. They said the apology by Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, on the floor of Parliament had no meaning and did not serve any purpose when victims were still going from pillar to post to seek justice. Mr Rahi said that it was unfortunate that certain Sikhs from Delhi still enjoyed good connections with the senior Congress leaders, who had played major role in anti-Sikh violence. In a resolution passed on the occasion, the NMDF completely rejected the Nanavati report. The NMDF said that Nanavati Commission was confined to Delhi violence while many Sikhs had lost their lives in Bokaro and other cities of the country. Another resolution sought amendment in the Indian Penal Code by incorporating clauses to take action rioters on the pattern on African countries. The resolution reads that the Indian Constitution should ensure safety of life and properties of the members of minorities.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050907/punjab1.htm#36 Steps to rein in Punjab police Tribune News Service Chandigarh, September 6 The Punjab Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, today announced steps to curb the Punjab Police, saying anybody violating these direction would be dealt with sternly and claimed “there was no police raj in the state as being projected in some quartersâ€. The Chief Minister also released a 14-point list of do’s and dont’s for the police which was like putting old wine in new bottle as most of these directions were taken verbatim from the D.K. Basu judgement of the Supreme Court in 1997. The gist of the D.K. Basu judgement is already known to the cops and is even pasted in the leading police stations. Today the orders of Punjab say: Except in the case of heinous crimes or matters of grave threat to public persons and properties or disturbance of law and order and threat to national security, the police personnel will arrest a person after obtaining proper warrant of arrest from the court of competent jurisdiction. In case, the person(s) to be arrested happen to be woman or a child they should not be detained in police stations unless otherwise directed by a court. Police personnel carrying out and handling the interrogation of the arrested person should bear accurate, visible and clear identification and name tags with their designations. A police officer carrying out the arrest will prepare a memo of arrest at the time of arrest and such memo will be attested by at least one witness, who may be either a member of the family of the arrested person or a respectable person of the locality. It will contain the time and date of arrest. A person who has been arrested or detained and is being held in custody in police station or interrogation centre or other lock-up, will be entitled to have one friend or relative informed that he has been arrested and is being detained at the particular place. The time, place of arrest and venue of custody must be notified by the police in case a friend or relative of the arrested person lives outside the district or town through the legal aid organisation in the district. The person arrested must be made aware of this right to have someone informed of his arrest or detention as soon as he is put under arrest or is detained. An entry must be made in the diary at the place of detention regarding the arrest of the person which will also disclose the name of the friend of the arrested person who has been informed. It will also have the names of police officials in whose custody the person is. The arrested should be also examined at the time of his arrest and major and minor injuries, if any, present on his/her body must be recorded at that time. The arrested should be subject to medical examination every 48 hours of his detention in custody by a doctor on the panel of approved doctors appointed by the Director, Health Services, of the state or union territory. Copies of all documents, including the memo of arrest, should be sent to the Ilaqa Magistrate for his record. The arrested person may be permitted to meet his lawyer during interrogation, though not throughout the interrogation. The information regarding the arrest and the place of custody of the arrested person should be communicated by the officer within 12 hours of the arrest to the police control rooms at all districts and state headquarters and it should be displayed on a notice board.

I think for one we need to constantly highlight the abuses to the Sikh community and also wider to the world. There are currently cases being made against the goi and that will be good to highlight the perpotrators and also document the suffering that Sikhs are going through which can be presented to the UN amongst others: http://www.target10000.org

http://www.sikhsangat.org/publish/article_254.shtml Khalsa Dal highlights plight of Sikhs languishing in jails By SikhSangat News Aug 7, 2005, 07:21 Aged 85, with an old senile body, a hunched back, suffering from diabetes, sore feet with open wounds and hard of hearing Baba Gurdev Singh from village Kaleke, Distt. Moga is languishing in jail sentenced to 135 years of imprisonment. His only fault is that his young son Bal Bahadar Singh deserted the Indian Army as he was emotionally depressed and upset by the happenings of 1984 when Indian Government attacked Siri Harimandir Sahib Amritsar. The younger brother of Baba Gurdev Singh, Bhai Jora Singh (70) is also serving a life sentence in the Jail booked under the draconian law abbreviated as TADA, which stands for Terrorist And Disruptive Activities act. The fault of Bhai Jora Singh is that he had raised voice against the false cases filed against his elder brother Baba Gurdev Singh. Talking to the press he said “The Punjab police has already killed my two sons and I don't know why they are keeping me in jail even after completion of my life sentence. I don't know what danger they have from an 85 year old who is suffering from so many ailments and is hard of hearing.†With tears in his eyes he continued “My younger son who left military was killed in a fake encounter by Punjab Police on 17 December 1987. After that all hell was let loose on my family. My elder son was killed by Punjab Police Cats (Kalian Bilian) and his dead body was thrown in the village to terrorize people.†He further narrated how he and his younger brother Bhai Jora Singh were brutally tortured by the police umpteen number of times and when nothing came out of interrogation they were booked under TADA and sent to High Security Nabha Jail. Police brutality did not stop here. About 7 years ago Punjab Police picked up his third son, Kinder Singh. When the mother Bibi Surjit Kaur came to know of this she tried locating her son but failed to do so. She died of the shock of loosing her only remaining son. Telling this horrific tale of brutality heaped on his innocent family his eyes were watery and throat lumpy, but he carried on. In 1989 when a police party was ruthlessly beating the brothers, his uncle objected to the actions of the police and asked them to stop. The police made his uncle a target as well and because of atrocious beating his uncle died overnight. Baba Gurdev Singh said that he has come on parole for the 9th time and all his record during these 9 paroles is spotless but in police files he is still responsible for sedition, secessionist activities and a danger to the security of the country. At one point in time there was a move to free all lifers above 60 years by Jail Minister Inderjit Singh Zira but the Punjab Police DSP Moga had scuttled the move by declaring that the release of TADA detainees will be a danger to the peace and security of the state. Shiromani Khalsa Dal (SKD) held a press conference to highlight the plight of these Sikhs languishing in jails. SKD spokesperson Swaran Singh Khalsa said, "Eighty five-year-old Gurdev Singh, a resident of Kalke village near Moga was booked under TADA and has been languishing in jails for twelve-and-a-half years. We impress upon the government, especially in view of the announcements it made that it would release the sikh youth, that old sikhs like Gurdev Singh should be released immediately." Bhai Swaran Singh Khalsa informed that this tale of Baba Gurdev Singh and Bhai Jora Singh is not a single instance but there are many such cases of blatant injustice and violation of human rights. The Dal has prepared a list of such Sikhs who have been serving sentences for over a decade and jailed without any case or court hearings. These include Kuldip Singh (12yrs in jail), Gurnam Singh (13yrs in jail), Major Singh (15yrs in jail), Balbir Singh (12yrs in jail), Lal Singh Phagwara (13yrs in jail), Ravinder Singh Bittu (14yrs in jail), Daya Singh Fauji (12yrs in jail), Balraj Singh (12yrs in jail), and Sarabjit Singh (12yrs in jail). These prisoners are not just at Nabha Jail but also all over India in places like Ambala Jail and Ratnagiri Special Jail. The leaders of the party also said that they would approach Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee president Paramjeet Singh Sarna to take up the matter with the Centre.

http://www.sikhsangat.org/publish/article_347.shtml Sikh Octogenarian Back to Prison By Sikh Sangat News Aug 31, 2005, 04:30 Despite the promises of the Akali and Congress Governments of the times; Baba Gurdev Singh who is 85 years old will go back to prison (Nabha Jail) tommorow when he finshes his period of parole. The imprisonment sentence slapped on this innocent Sikh has been over long ago but he is still being held in prison for the reasons best known to the Government. This is another blatant violation of Human Rights and daylight abuse of Sikhs by the present regime in India. It is worth mentioning here that Baba Gurdev Singh can hardly walk, has sore feet with open wounds, hard of hearing, very poor eyesight and suffers from diabetes.

http://www.sikhsangat.org/publish/article_405.shtml Sikh Woman Manjot Kaur Released By Sikh Sangat News Sep 12, 2005, 06:20 Chandigarh, September 11 24 Sikh and Human rights organizations from Chandigarh and Punjab which have come together as ‘Rights Forum’ today held a function in Gurudwara Siri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib to receive Bibi Manjot Kaur. The Sikh woman was kidnapped by the Punjab Police from her Sector 34 residence in Chandigarh and then implicated in a false case. Addressing the gathering, Justice Ajit Singh Bains, convener of the Rights Forum said that Manjot Kaur is a brave Sikh woman who despite being kidnapped and pressurized did not buckle under police pressure. The congregation demanded that the police officers responsible for kidnapping the Sikh Woman be charged and disciplinary action taken against them. The Rights Forum thanked the media for its role in highlighting the injustice being committed on the Sikh Population. The forum has demanded that many other Sikhs picked up by the police alongwith their families and falsely implicated in cases should be released. Other speakers on this occasion were Advocate DS Gill, Amar Singh Chahal, Kanwarpal Singh from Dal Khalsa, Charan Singh Lohara from Akali Dal Amritsar, Gurnam Singh Sidhu and Jaspal singh Dhillon.

Here is some of the history to it: http://www.panthic.org/news/125/ARTICLE/16...24b985e0ff2ec2f Police exposed with Jagtar Singh Hawara's statementsSunday 21st August, 2005 Saffajang Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff Chandigarh, Punjab (KP) – Mastermind of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassination, Jagtar Singh Hawara, who had escaped from the Burail Jail in a most sensational jail break has exposed Punjab Police’s policies in front of the media. Speaking about the assasination of a doctor in Fatehgarh Sahib District, Jagtar Singh Hawara said that the four people who had been arrested in this case have in no way anything to do with this murder. Jagtar Singh Hawara totally exposed the Police when he took all the responsibility of the murder on himself. According to reports received from hidden agencies during interrogations, Jagtar Singh Hawara admitted that he had killed the doctor because he was sending reports of Babbar Khalsa activities to the Police. Jagtar Singh Hawara said that he had used AK-47 to kill the doctor, but the Police had wrongfully framed this case by planting empty pistol cartridges at the place where the four were arrested.. This statement of Hawara has totally stunned Police officials. This falsely framed case should act as an eye opener for those who are concerned about the wrongful arrests of hundreds of innocent Sikhs from Punjab who have been picked up by the Punjab Police after the arrest of Jagtar Singh Hawara. http://www.panthic.org/news/125/ARTICLE/16...24b985e0ff2ec2f Obstacles put in the way of Hawara’s Defense Sunday 21st August, 2005 Sucha Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff Chandigarh, Punjab (KP) - The cunning Brahmin government of India pulls yet another devious move in an attempt to damage the defense of Sikh activist Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara. On a complaint from the Burail Jail Superintendent R.C. Sharma, the two lawyers Amar Singh Chahal and Sukhwinder Singh who are representing the Babbar Khalsa chief in India were arrested. The charges brought against them are wrongful confinement, threatening a prison warden (Mantu Ram) and restricting public servants from performing their duties The police version of the story is that Bhai Hawara's lawyers arrived at the jail to appear on the behalf of their client and insisted on taking their car inside the jail. On being prevented by prison warden Mantu Ram from taking their car inside the two lawyers created a scene, subsequently the lawyers were arrested. The drama did not end here. Amar Singh and Sukhwinder Singh answered back by filing before the Additional Session Judge, Mr. Sharma a contempt of court against the jail officials. Siding with Hawara Ji's lawyers, the District Bar Association alleged that the two had been framed by the police for exposing acts of omission and commission of the jail staff. The DBA says that the lawyers were framed in order to create an obstacle in the defense of Bhai Jagtar Singh, for which they were actively engaged in for the past 10 years. The District Bar Association went on to say, “This tentamounts to interference with the judicial proceedings and obstructing the administration of justice by depriving the defense counsel of the right to defend his client.†The Brahmin Government is doing anything that it can do to damage the defense of Jagtar Singh Hawara. They have already put so many false cases against him so that his whole life will be spent in the courts of India. In these courts there is practically no chance of justice being served, especially for Sikhs. http://www.panthic.org/news/125/ARTICLE/15...67986786a8afbce False case against Hawara’s wife should be dropped, IHRO Sunday 24th July, 2005 Saffajang Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff Jalandhar, Punjab (KP) - In a press conference, D.S. Gill, president of the International Human Rights Organization (IHRO) stated that his organization would be approaching the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding the illegal detention of Jagtar Singh Hawara’s wife, Balwinder Kaur, who was arrested in Dhuri village of the Sangrur district along with three others. According to D.S. Gill, Balwinder Kaur has been seriously mistreated by the Police. He also expressed the fear of her being executed by the Police. D.S. Gill also stated that no one has any right of ill treating Balwinder Kaur for merely being the wife of Jagtar Singh Hawara, the Khalistani activist. He said that just by being the wife of a militant, nobody has a right to treat her as a militant. The Punjab Human Rights Organization headed by Justice Ajit Singh Bains and many other organizations have expressed deep concerns over the illegal detentions of hundreds of Sikhs in the past couple of months after the arrest of Jagtar Singh Hawara. These organizations have urged the Punjab Government to drop the false allegations against all the innocent victims of the Punjab Police and against the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) chief S. Simranjit Singh Mann. The National Human Rights Commission in the past was encouraged by Shiromani Akali Dal (A) to protect religious and human rights of Jagtar Singh Hawara.

I cant believe you are justifying torture of a GurSikh (including putting tobacco in Bhai Sahibs mouth - because he is a Sikh) that has been falsely accused by a corrupt state. I just hope no-one in your family gets falsely accused by indian police and tortured.

Vaheguru

http://www.panthic.org/news/125/ARTICLE/17...3e1abe94b861c79 Hawara Speaks of Being Tortured Sunday 11th September, 2005 Sucha Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff Chandigarh, Punjab (KP) - Sikh Freedom Fighter Bhai Jagtar Singh Ji Hawara, who was captured by Indian security forces about three months ago, has appealed the National Human Rights Commission on the grounds of him being tortured and for the total disregard of his religious sentiments by the Delhi Police. Bhai Sahib has told NHRC that the methods of torture that were inflicted on him included electric shock. He said that this was done at the behest of certain leaders in Delhi. Bhai Jagtar Singh Ji also told of how he was not allowed to cover his head, which is a requirement according to the Sikh Code of Conduct. It should be noted that there was no restriction imposed on Bhai Sahib from covering his head while he was previously lodged in Burail Jail before his escape. This is not the first time that freedom fighter Bhai Jagtar Singh Ji Hawara has told of being tortured and of complete disregard of his religious sentiments by the Delhi Police. About a month after his arrest, Bhai Sahib had told his lawyers that there was no part of his body that the police had not inflicted torture on. This was evident also from the many pictures in the press, which showed that Bhai Sahib was unable to step out of the Police jeep without the assistance of the Police Personel. At that time, Bhai Jagtar Singh Ji had also narrated the tales of how the police purposely hurt his religious sentiments by pouring alcohol into his mouth and stuffing his mouth full of tobacco from cigarettes. This was all done to Bhai Sahib in order to break the Sikh Spirit in him, as the Security Forces know that he is a very devout Sikh who follows the teachings and Sikh Code of Conduct to the letter. It is a sin for any Sikh to consume or use products such as tobacco and alcohol. The Government of India has shown time and time again that it has no regard for the religious sentiments of the Sikhs. The despicable act of putting tobacco in the mouth of Sikhs by Police officials has surfaced and become prevalent since the late eighties. The torture of Sikhs in Indian jails has been a common occurrence since the independence of India. Hopefully some Human Rights groups in India or abroad will come to the aid of Bhai Jagtar Singh Ji Hawara and other Sikhs who languishing in jails all over India have and still are facing unspeakable brutal torture at the hands of the Indian Government.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

Police exposed with Jagtar Singh Hawara's statements Sunday 21st August, 2005 Saffajang Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff Chandigarh, Punjab (KP) – Mastermind of former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassination, Jagtar Singh Hawara, who had escaped from the Burail Jail in a most sensational jail break has exposed Punjab Police’s policies in front of the media. Speaking about the assasination of a doctor in Fatehgarh Sahib District, Jagtar Singh Hawara said that the four people who had been arrested in this case have in no way anything to do with this murder. Jagtar Singh Hawara totally exposed the Police when he took all the responsibility of the murder on himself. According to reports received from hidden agencies during interrogations, Jagtar Singh Hawara admitted that he had killed the doctor because he was sending reports of Babbar Khalsa activities to the Police. Jagtar Singh Hawara said that he had used AK-47 to kill the doctor, but the Police had wrongfully framed this case by planting empty pistol cartridges at the place where the four were arrested.. This statement of Hawara has totally stunned Police officials. This falsely framed case should act as an eye opener for those who are concerned about the wrongful arrests of hundreds of innocent Sikhs from Punjab who have been picked up by the Punjab Police after the arrest of Jagtar Singh Hawara. Saffajang Singh can be reached at saffajang.singh@panthic.org

http://www.panthic.org/news/125/ARTICLE/16...24b985e0ff2ec2f Obstacles put in the way of Hawara’s Defense Sunday 21st August, 2005 Sucha Singh - Panthic Weekly Staff Chandigarh, Punjab (KP) - The cunning Brahmin government of India pulls yet another devious move in an attempt to damage the defense of Sikh activist Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara. On a complaint from the Burail Jail Superintendent R.C. Sharma, the two lawyers Amar Singh Chahal and Sukhwinder Singh who are representing the Babbar Khalsa chief in India were arrested. The charges brought against them are wrongful confinement, threatening a prison warden (Mantu Ram) and restricting public servants from performing their duties The police version of the story is that Bhai Hawara's lawyers arrived at the jail to appear on the behalf of their client and insisted on taking their car inside the jail. On being prevented by prison warden Mantu Ram from taking their car inside the two lawyers created a scene, subsequently the lawyers were arrested. The drama did not end here. Amar Singh and Sukhwinder Singh answered back by filing before the Additional Session Judge, Mr. Sharma a contempt of court against the jail officials. Siding with Hawara Ji's lawyers, the District Bar Association alleged that the two had been framed by the police for exposing acts of omission and commission of the jail staff. The DBA says that the lawyers were framed in order to create an obstacle in the defense of Bhai Jagtar Singh, for which they were actively engaged in for the past 10 years. The District Bar Association went on to say, “This tentamounts to interference with the judicial proceedings and obstructing the administration of justice by depriving the defense counsel of the right to defend his client.†The Brahmin Government is doing anything that it can do to damage the defense of Jagtar Singh Hawara. They have already put so many false cases against him so that his whole life will be spent in the courts of India. In these courts there is practically no chance of justice being served, especially for Sikhs. Sucha Singh can be reached at sucha.singh@panthic.org

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http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=144692 ‘80 % cases in PSHRC are against police’ Megha Mohan Phillaur, August 19 EIGHTY per cent of the cases of human rights violation that we receive are against Punjab police. While some complain of high handedness, others allege injustice at the hands of police. Thorough sensitisation of police personnel on human rights is the need of the hour. This was said by member of Punjab State Human Rights Commission, Justice R.L Anand (retd), while he was addressing top cops in a meeting held at Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Police Academy. Justice Anand was a part of the delegation from PSHRC that visited the PPA to sensitise policemen on human rights and the importance of giving them due recognition. He said reports of incidents of custodial deaths, custodial rapes and torture are frequently being received by the commission. ‘‘No one has any right to infringe upon a man’s basic right. It’s not that if someone has committed a crime we should torture or misbehave with that person. The Punjab police needs to get more sensitive towards human rights,’’ Justice Anand added. He appreciated the efforts of PPA in imparting education in human rights through regular as well as short-term programmes. ‘‘But these programmes are not meant only for theory but also for being implemented. Cops need motivation to implement things successfully,’’ he said. Deputy Director and Dean, PPA, Dr D.J Singh gave a presentation on the PPA vision, human rights training curriculum, Ph.D research projects at PPA and M.Phil dissertations completed through PPA. He said that the PPA also imparts training to Bhutan, Maldives, Afghan and Palestinian police officers. PPA plans to hold special re-orientation courses on human rights for constables and head-constables at Police Research and Training Centre in Jahan Kalan, he added. PSHRC member N.K Arora, secretary R.C Nayyar, IGP of commission H.R Chadha, ADGP training-cum-director PPA R.S Gill, DIG-cum-Joint Director of academy B.K Garg, Dr S.S Chauhan, Sukhmohinder Singh Sandhu, G.S Sandhu, R.S Khatra and Kamal Kumar also attended the function.

Rights body decries Cong role in ’84 riots To organise protest march today Tribune News Service Ludhiana, August 19 The Punjab Rights Forum, a conglomerate of various political, social and human rights bodies, has resolved to organise a protest march on August 20 here, against the role allegedly played by late Rajiv Gandhi and other Congressmen in the 1984 anti-Sikh carnage in Delhi and elsewhere on the eve of the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister. This decision was taken at a meeting of the senior leaders of the outfit held here today. Those who attended the meeting included Mr D. S. Gill, Prof. Jagmohan Singh, Mr Charan Singh Lohara, Mr Kanwarpal Singh, Mr Satnam Singh (Paonta Sahib) Mr Surinder Pal Singh, Mr Mandhir Singh, Mr Jaspal Singh Dhillon and Mr Rajinder Singh. “Though the Nanavati Commission has exonerated Rajiv Gandhi, Narasimha Rao and many other Congress leaders of that time for their role in the massacre of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi, it was necessary to expose their nefarious role,†they observed. The forum said the widely reported remarks of Rajiv Gandhi, when he told Congress workers and the media assembled around the dead body of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, that “when a big tree falls, the earth shakesâ€, leaves no one in doubt about his involvement in the carnage, they pointed out. The leaders also took PM Manmohan Singh to task for absolving the Congress high command of the anti-Sikh carnage, as they believed that he did so in lieu of the Gandhi family elevating him to the office of the PM. They criticised the political parties which were going to observe the death anniversary of Harchand Singh Longowal who had betrayed the Sikh Nation and the people of Punjab, especially on river waters. Elaborating on their programme, they said the activists of SAD (Amritsar), Dal Khalsa, Khalsa Panchayat, Shiromani Khalsa Dal, SAD (1920), Damdami Taksal, Sikh Students Federation, IHRO and PHRO would start their protest march from Gurdwara Sahib, Dugri, towards District Courts, where a rally would be held later in the day.