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TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES[ THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 11:40:32 AM ]

CHANDIGARH: At least four prisoners, including three prisoners being tried

in the case relating to the assassination of former Punjab chief minister

Beant Singh, have escaped from a jail here by tunnelling their way out.

The prisoners, who bolted from Burail Jail on Wednesday night, include

Jagtar Singh Tara, Jagtar Singh Hawara, Paramjit Singh Pheora and Dev Singh.

The escape came to light Thursday at around 7 am when the terrorists were

not found in their cells.

The terrorists dug a tunnel from inside the jail, taking advantage of lax

security on a rainy and cold night, officials said. All four belonged to the

Babbar Khalsa outfit.

Police said a massive manhunt had been launched in the northern states to

track down the terrorists.

A red-faced Union Territory administration has so far refused to comment on

the jail break, saying that the matter is being investigated.

Top UT officials including Home Secretary, Inspector General of UT police,

Deputy Commissioner, SSP and a large posse of policemen have arrived at the

Burail Jail. The main entrance to the jail has been blocked to keep the

media and curious onlookers at bay.

Authorities said security forces in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal

Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir had been put on high alert.

The terrorists were being tried inside the high-security jail since 1995.

They were lodged in a special security cell, separated from other inmates.

Former chief minister Beant Singh , credited for the return of normalcy in

Punjab after a decade o

f Sikh militancy, was assassinated by a human bomb,

Dilawar Singh, at the Punjab civil secretariat complex on August 31, 1995.

The first charge in the case was filed on November 29, 1995 followed by a

second on December 18,1995. The CBI went on to file another chargesheet on

February 10, 1996. The final chargesheet was filed in November 1997.

Tara is among the two undertrials who had admitted involvement in the case.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040122/main10.htm

Beant Singh murder case accused escape from jail

Chandigarh, January 22

Four undertrials, including three accused in the Beant Singh assassination

case, escaped from the high security Burail jail in Chandigarh on Thursday,

jail sources said.

Those escaped included Jagtar Singh Hawara, Jagtar Singh Tara and Paramjit

Singh, the three main accused in the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister

Beant Singh in 1995, sources said.

The fourth was an undertrial attached as a helper to the accused.

The four escaped by digging about a 100-foot-long tunnel from their barrack

inside the prison to a point outside the jail boundary, sources added.

Senior civil and police officials, including Chandigarh Deputy Commissioner

and District Magistrate Arun Kumar, who is also Inspector General of prison,

have reached the Burail jail.

The proceedings of the Beant Singh assassination case were being conducted

within the high security prison.

Senior Superintendent of police Gaurav Yadav while talking to PTI confirmed

the escape of the four prisoners and added at the moment no further details

could be given.

Beant Singh was assassinated in a human bomb blast out side the Punjab and

Haryana Civil Secretariat in Chandigarh on August 31, 1995. — PTI

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All readers include these chardikalla singhs in your ardass, may waheguru protect,shelter and guide them to safety and freedom.

Sukhbir Singh

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh,

As you will see from the date of the BBC report below it is coming up to one

year since the Indian state admitted that the five 'Pakistani terrorists'

that they claimed were responsible for the execution of 35 Sikh men on the

eve of Bill Clintons visit to India were infact innocent Muslim villager's.

As you read the article below you will see that DNA samples handled by

government agencies had been tampered with. Again this is reluctantly

admitted by the state and not simply my or anybody else's opinion.

Clearly the killing of these innocents was the first step in covering the

complicity of the indian security forces in the Sikh killing's, the

subsequent tampering of the evidence was an attempt to hide the true

identity of the so called 'terrorists' that india claimed were Pakistani

agent's but who we know now were simply local Muslim youth's.

The indian security forces did go to great lengths to burn and disfigure the

bodies after murdering them so as to make identification impossible,

miraculously although the bodies were charred beyond recognition the plastic

Pakistani identity cards they were supposedly carrying were intact !

The evidence is clearly here that the government is still involved in a

rather poor cover up, poor because it doesn't really cover up anything. At

the time of the murders many savvy commentators were already questioning as

to who the beneficiary of such an action would be.

The leader of the world's superpower is visiting india that very evening to

discuss amongst other thing's

Kashmir. Bear in mind that no Sikh has been

attacked to date in the long violent struggle within Kashmir, Pakistan

decides to hand india the ammunition it needs to convince the US that

Pakistan is a supporter of terrorism by massacring 35 Sikhs and the charade

continues as the indian army round up the Pakistani killers, kill and then

burn them.

Result, india is vindicated as a victim enduring ongoing provocation from

blood thirsty diabolical Muslim terrorist group's that are covertly

sponsored by Pakistan. That's one way to get Bill on your side and what's

the cost? Well... 35 Sikhs and 5 Muslims, a bargain by indian standards.

The reason I am posting this now is two fold, firstly because it's going to

be a year since this information came into the public domain, predictably

india is sat on its hand's, perhaps remembering that they managed to white

wash the Delhi pogroms successfully by delaying report after report and

court trial after court trial and waiting for the Sikhs to forget. You

cannot blame them for thinking we will forget Chitisingpora in time as well.

And secondly because the recent anniversary of the criminal bluestar and

it's massacres revealed to me a certain section within the Sikh community

that feel that what happened in 1984 is history we should neither discuss

nor remember but conveniently forget, I admit I understand the sentiment but

it is borne out of ignorance. 1984 did not just 'occur' it was not a

coincidental event, the catalyst's for that period can be traced back

several decades to the time of 'independence'. Equally the events of that

period (84) did not end on the 31st December 1984 nor did they end ten

year's ago or last night for that matter, remember Amnesty's latest report

into the Panjab and S. Kutha's acquittal were announced only this year.

We are not talking about the past but the here and now, Chittisingpora and

othe

r massacres will continue to plague us until we can find the courage to

realise our position within the indian state and thus the world order. In

many way's burying your head in the sand can be a quite attractive option

but bluestar, woodrose, black thunder etc. are the price you pay.

If we are not careful we will get a reputation for being a forgetful people

and so we will continue to suffer. I am sure that the likes of Sajjan Kutha,

HKL Faghat and Jagdish Titler cannot believe they are still breathing

although I am equally sure they never thought they would spend a night behin

d bar's, well not in the worlds largest hypocrisy anyway.

By the same token there are people there in Delhi who know who removed those

turbans, who tied those Chitisingpora villagers hands behind their backs,

who lined them up in front of a wall with their families and who shot them

dead and you know something else? They like S. Kutha and co. have nothing to

worry about because you see the Sikhs, well they have become a forgetful

lot.

The question is are they right?

Gur Fateh

Sukhbir Singh

Tuesday, 16 July, 2002, 13:54 GMT 14:54 UK BBC WORLD SOUTH ASIA

The killings of the men led to massive protests

Five men killed by the Indian security forces in Kashmir two years ago were

innocent civilians and not foreign militants, the state authorities say.

The security forces said after killing the men that they were foreign

militants from a Pakistani-backed group who had carried out a massacre of 35

Sikhs.

The Sikh massacre left 35 people dead

But Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah told the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly

that DNA tests on the remains of the men proved that they were local

residents of Anantnag distric

t in Indian-administered Kashmir as claimed by

their relatives.

Their families had insisted all along that they had been killed in a fake

encounter after being arrested by the security forces.

Probe ordered

Farooq Abdullah said he would be asking India's Central Bureau of

Investigation (CBI) to look into the killing of the men.

He said he also wanted them to conduct a probe into local officials

responsible for DNA samples that were sent for analysis to laboratories

elsewhere in India.

The samples were only taken after huge protest demonstrations in Kashmir

forced the authorities to exhume the bodies of the men in order to establish

their identity.

It subsequently turned out that the samples had been tampered with and fresh

DNA had to be collected in April this year.

The massacre of the 35 Sikhs was one of the worst acts of violence against

civilians in Kashmir during the history of the insurgency against Indian

rule.

It occurred on the eve of a high-profile visit to India by the then US

president, Bill Clinton.

The security forces blamed it on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Toiba

militant group.

Human rights activists and Kashmiri groups have long accused the security

forces of staging fake encounters, in which innocent civilians are killed.

The army always says it looks into such allegations.

Militant groups in Kashmir are fighting to end Indian rule in the territory