Four Held In Uk For Rulda Singh’S Murder

[laalsingh]

Four held in UK for Rulda Singh's murder

Umesh Dewan

Tribune News Service

Patiala, July 13

The West MidlandsPolice in the UK has arrested four persons allegedly involved in themurder of Rulda Singh, state president of the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, anaffiliate of the RSS, last year.

According to senior policeofficials, the four suspected persons, the identity of whom was yet tobe disclosed, had been arrested on the basis of a dossier given by thePunjab Police to the British Police sometime ago and their coordinatedinvestigations.

RuldaSingh was shot at his shop-cum-flat at the Grain Market on July 28,2009, by two assailants, who later fled in a car. While one bulletpassed through his neck, another pumped into his chest. He was admittedto the PGI, Chandigarh, but succumbed to his injuries on August 15,2009.

As per information,a team of the West Midlands Police visited Punjab and held discussionswith the Intelligence Bureau, the top brass of the Punjab Police andPatiala cops. During investigations that continued for the past severalmonths, the leads pointed towards the involvement of some Sikhextremist groups in the UK in the murder case.

Talkingto The Tribune, Patiala SSP Ranbir Singh Khatra, who is headinginvestigations into the matter, said, "We have shared whateverinformation was with us with the West Midlands Police and hadsubsequently sent a dossier to them."

Khatrasaid the role of the four suspected persons in the murder case wasbeing investigated, adding that, "Two of them are believed to beBritish nationals."

He saida joint probe with the Britian Police points that Paramjit Pamma, PyaraSingh Gill, Amritbir and Gursharan Bir are involved in the case. Policeofficials told TNS that investigations strongly indicate that ParamjitPamma masterminded the plot and Gursharan Bir and Pyara Singh are themain suspects who fired gunshots.

OnSeptember 24, 2009, the Patiala Police had arrested two persons,Darshan Singh and Jagmohan Singh, in connection with the murder case.At that time, cops had stated that the Babbar Khalsa International wasbehind the murder and the main objective to eliminate Rulda was itsideology.

Meanwhile,though the Punjab Police is waiting to get information about the fourarrested persons, investigations by the British Police into the murdercase were being conducted by officials from the West Midlands Polices'CID and its Counter-Terrorism Unit.

http://www.tribunein...4/punjab.htm#14

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7888004/Four-Britons-held-in-UK-over-Indian-Sikhs-murder.html

Four Britons held in UK over Indian Sikh's murder

Four men were arrested in the West Midlands on Tuesday over the murder of a controversial and high-profile Sikh politician in India last year.

By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor

Published: 8:37AM BST 14 Jul 2010

West Midlands Police said the suspects, who are all British nationals, were detained in Wolverhampton, Coventry and Smethwick, near Birmingham, in connection with the murder of Rulda Singh, a leader of the Sikh wing of India's main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Singh was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting by two gunmen on a motorbike outside his home in Patiala, Punjab, in July last year. He died in hospital two weeks later.

Investigations into his killing launched by police in Britain and India focused on his role in Sikh religious affairs and bitter feuds within Sikh politics in both countries.

As a BJP general secretary responsible for the party's relations with Sikhs and other Indians living overseas, Mr Singh was well-connected with senior BJP figures.

But according to detectives in India, it was his role in the pro-BJP Sikh cultural organisation, the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat, which led to the plot to assassinate him.

The Sangat was set up to improve relations between Sikhs and Hindus after years of conflict following the rise of the Sikh separatist movement, the 1984 attack by Indian forces on Amritsar's Golden Temple, the centre of Sikhism, the subsequent murder of Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards and the massacre of Sikhs which followed.

Ranbir Khatra, Senior Superintendent of Police in Patiala, told The Daily Telegraph he believed Mr Singh was murdered by members of the Babbar Khalsa International terrorist group, which wants an independent Sikh homeland called Khalistan, and the British Sikh Council.

"He had differences with the radical people who were opposed to his proposal to install the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism's Holy Book) in Hindu temples," he said.

His proposal had provoked angry protests against a meeting of his Rashtriya Sikh Sangat in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh last year to discuss it.

Radical Sikh separatists regarded Mr Singh as anti-Sikh over the issue, but there was greater suspicion of him after revelations that he had been secretly met some leading separatist figures, including members of the British Sikh Council, to find common ground.

A police spokesman said two men had already been charged by Indian authorities in connection with Mr Singh's killing in Patiala, in the Punjab, last July.

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Ooops just realised there is already a thread in General Discussions.

Could the mods pls re-arrange/merge the two threads?

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[dalsingh101]

The dead man.

Here's the UK coverage from the leftwing Guardian. It describes the RSS as "a Hindu supremacist paramilitary volunteer organisation."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/13/four-britons-arrested-indian-politician-murder-punjab

The Telegraph, a more conservative, rightwing organ:

"Ranbir Khatra, Senior Superintendent of Police in Patiala, told The Daily Telegraph he believed Mr Singh was murdered by members of the Babbar Khalsa International terrorist group, which wants an independent Sikh homeland called Khalistan, and the British Sikh Council.

"He had differences with the radical people who were opposed to his proposal to install the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism's Holy Book) in Hindu temples," he said.

His proposal had provoked angry protests against a meeting of his Rashtriya Sikh Sangat in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh last year to discuss it.

Radical Sikh separatists regarded Mr Singh as anti-Sikh over the issue, but there was greater suspicion of him after revelations that he had been secretly met some leading separatist figures, including members of the British Sikh Council, to find common ground."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7888004/Four-Britons-held-in-UK-over-Indian-Sikhs-murder.html

Edited July 14, 2010 by dalsingh101

[chatanga1]

another opporutunity for the ravan state to claim there are sikh terrorist groups in uk. that prof rom birm uni seems like a right arsehole, claiming that sikh terrorists have taken over temples in uk.

as usual the brown nosing british govt will give them support, whilst ignoring the activities of the ravan sena over the last 2 decades.

[dalsingh101]

another opporutunity for the ravan state to claim there are sikh terrorist groups in uk. that prof rom birm uni seems like a right arsehole, claiming that sikh terrorists have taken over temples in uk.

Like any of aj kal's Khalistani rhetoric guys would actually do anything....

as usual the brown nosing british govt will give them support, whilst ignoring the activities of the ravan sena over the last 2 decades.

Not only this, any Hindu/Sikh who wants to crawl up whitey's arse (there are many of them!) can jump on this and indignantly represent themselves to be the voice of 'moderate Sikhs' against extremists. Whitey doesn't generally miss a chance to defame other communities and may exaggerate the problem, and give these 'leaders' a big ass microphone to do that. Hell, that prof is exactly that! lol

Let's see who else crawls out of the woodwork from amongst us like this.

I know Anglos do scheming across borders with their fellow brothers and I believe that all of the recent shite about the threat of K'stan from Manmohan Singh in Canada, the Air India case review and now this are possibly part of some timed/coordinated defamation, attempt by Anglos with their new Indian bum-chums.

Edited July 14, 2010 by dalsingh101

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http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2010/07/13/west-midlands-police-arrest-four-men-over-murder-of-public-figure-in-india-97319-26841628/

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Like any of aj kal's Khalistani rhetoric guys would actually do anything....

Not only this, any Hindu/Sikh who wants to crawl up whitey's arse (there are many of them!) can jump on this and indignantly represent themselves to be the voice of 'moderate Sikhs' against extremists. Whitey doesn't generally miss a chance to defame other communities and may exaggerate the problem, and give these 'leaders' a big ass microphone to do that. Hell, that prof is exactly that! lol

Let's see who else crawls out of the woodwork from amongst us like this.

I know Anglos do scheming across borders with their fellow brothers and I believe that all of the recent shite about the threat of K'stan from Manmohan Singh in Canada, the Air India case review and now this are possibly part of some timed/coordinated defamation, attempt by Anglos with their new Indian bum-chums.

It was quite ironic (which sadly no capable SIkh body in Canada was able to properly point out) that Sikhs were being told to forget and move on from 84 by media and Manmohan Singh while they themselves were busy hghlighting rememberance ceremonies and writing touching stories for the Air India bombing victims. I guess only global super powers have the right to remmeber their tragically lost kinsmen.