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  1. Dear Veer, I was just searching this forum and read a post of yours where u mentioned that in USA, u have 2 birs of Sri Dasam Granth, the hazuri bir and the bir patna compiled in 1697,1698. Can u tell something about the contents of these birs and are they different from the present verion of Sri Dasam Granth we have ? Do these birs contain Charitro-pakhyan as charitro-pakhyan was also available as a separate granth.
  2. At Takht Hazur Sahib, daily after aarti, sangat is blessed with darshan of shastars. There is a beautiful shaheedi tegaaa of Akaali Nihung Phoola Singh Jee and then there is an EXTREMELY beautiful 6 inch kirpan of Dashmesh Pita. That kirpan has the PERFECT SHAPE of what a kakkaar kirpan shud be like.
  3. I feel that the kakaar kirpan has a special shape which represents the ikankaar saroop of Akal Purakh. Its the shape of gurmukhi-1, i e. the ikk of ikk-oankaar. Taksali kirpans have the PERFECT shape. Even nihung singhs wear a small kirpan with a thread(and no miyaan). Even that kirpan has the perfect shape. Pech-kabaz cannot be worn as a kakaar kirpan. Kirpan reprsents Ikankaar saroop of Akal Purakh and Khanda(bhagauti or double edged sword) reprsents akaali shakti. There is no subsitute for their shapes.
  4. These shastars are beautiful but the most important thing about them is the quality of iron. Lots of work is done on the iron before casting it into the shape of a shastar. Most other people dont have time( and i guess even the skill) to make such hard iron. Nihung Baldev Singh Jee makes shastars on order because they need time to work on the iron to make it very hard. I doubt u can get these type of shastars( infact anywhere near these shastars) anywhere else. But they are very expensive.
  5. Exactly! this kirpaan removal leads to 2 kurehits. One gets separated from a kakaar which is a body part and secondly, one gets shastar-heenas. A pakka sikh shud die before getting shastar-heenas.
  6. SHASTARS ARE GOD! Without shastars, there is no Khalsa. Without shastars, sikhs will only get beaten like in delhi 84. Without shastars, there is no dignity. Without shastars, there is no Raaj. Thats the exact reason, there is parkash of shastars at the centre and parkash of Guru Granth Sahib Jee and Dasam Granth is at the sides at the takht. I feel this maryada was started by Dashmesh Pita, no doubt about it. JITE SHASTAR NAMA(N). NAMASKAAR TAMA(N). JITE ASTAR BHEYA(N). NAMASKAR TEYA(N).
  7. I feel whole of Sri Amritsar Sahib shud be made one big Gurdwara,like a small country cum gurdwara. It will happen in Khalsa Raj, trust me. Only horses will be used for travelling. There will be only naam and gurbani. Before this will happen, there will first be huge destruction, then Sri Amritsar Sahib will be rebuilt in Khalsa Raj. Its not that far.
  8. Yep, and the iron they use to make shastars is very different. They do a lot of work on the iron before making the shastar( same way as puratan shastars were made). Their iron is so hard that it can cut most of our shastars in 2 parts. Trust me, there is no match for these shastars in the panth. This nihung singh has Gur-prasad in making shastars. These are just DIOMONDS. These shastars are meant for dharam yudh and not some pradarshani. These shastars are meant to pass from one generation to another. Akal Purakh bless Nihung Baldev Singh Jee.
  9. Yep, first the air travel will become very expensive,( which is happening already), then after some time, only very rich people will afford it, after some time only goverment and mililtary will have it. Air travel for common man is almost over I feel in the next 3-4 years(at most). Air travel is one of the main culprit in greenhouse emissions. So it will be definately be good for the environment. Sikhs living abroad will have to use ships to do darshan of Itihaasak Guru Ghars.
  10. I can confirm the quality of the shastars available on this website. There is NO MATCH for these shastars. These shastars are DIOMONDS. This nihung singh jee has GUR-PRASAD in making shastars. I visited his factory in Sri Amritsar Sahib and on seeing his shastars, I felt like I shud sell my house and all of my property and buy all the shastars, hahahaha. But the only problem is that these shastars are very expensive, especially for people living in India, I hope this nihung singh jee does something about this.
  11. source: https://www.ihro.in/?q=node/46 WHERE WOMEN ARE PARADED NAKED MARCH 8, 1989 A team of the Nari Manch (Women’s Forum), Punjab, consisting of Dr. Jiwan Jot (Convenor Nari Manch and Vice President of IHRO), Ms Kamal Sandhu, BA LL. B and Ganpat, Advocate visited Batala and Ludhiana areas to document police atrocities on women. The team interviewed the affected persons, Sarpanches (village heads), social workers and intellectuals of the area. The team was in¬formed about many cases of police atrocities but this report is mainly about police cases concerning women. 1. Women are being harassed by the male police. There are no woman police in many Police stations and women are taken to police stations accompanied by male police only. No Sarpanch is informed before women are taken away. They are kept in illegal custody for days together. 2. Police come to villages and interrogate women like criminals. They are beaten, kicked and molested by the male police. Even the pregnant women are not spared. In the police stations they are abused, molested and physically harassed. The women taken in custody range from teenagers to old women. One incident has come to the Committee's notice where police has stripped naked and was made to parade in the police station. There are many more cases where women burst in tears instead of narrating their tales. Their tears tell the tales but they are hesitant to narrate the actual happening in the police stations due to social consequences involved especially in cases of unmarried girls. A case came to our notice where a married girl was divorced after she was maltreated in the police station due to this reason only. 3. Two categories of women are taken to police custody. First, of those families who are doubted as harbours or where "terror¬ists" stay at gun-point. Second, women related to those families whose sons or other relatives have joined the ranks of "terror¬ists." The molestation of women in both the categories is done to demoralise the people so that no one dare raise their voice against any type of injustice by the state. An incident at Sarchur is a glaring example of these phenomena of demoralising the people. Here the Senior Superintendent of Po¬lice, Batala, Gobind Ram forced people of Sarchur and adjoining village to collect at a focal point and beat all the youth ruth¬lessly. Then, they were forced to abuse Surjit Kaur, an Akali Leader who was in jail for the last six months, and her daugh¬ters. When an ex-serviceman S. Charan Singh refused to abuse village daughters, he was taken in custody and kept in police station for three days. Gobind Ram threatened that if villagers dared their voice, next time he will repeat the same with village women. The SSP also threatened that he would make Surjit Kaur parade naked as and when she comes out of jail. Certain families have sent their daughters away to their relatives. In another incident at Padda village, Ajit Singh Shah's family was beaten and kicked. The women and men were stripped naked and make to stand along with each other. Even the scarf’s (Dupattas) of these women were taken away from their heads forcibly. The Panchayat members of village Padda were beaten ruthlessly and forced to draw lines on earth with their noses and then taken to Gurdwara and forced to abuse themselves as well as "terrorists" on the mike. In another case a brother, Amarjit Singh, was forced to beat his sister Amarjit Kaur in Batala Sadar police station. The committee has noted an entirely new kind of phenomenon. Certain armed gangs have been raised by the police that are responsible for many incidents of atrocities as well as looting, and when people go to the police to lodge FIR no notices of the complaints are taken. Glaring example of this phenomenon is the case of village Mari Buchian where Nihang Ajit Poohla, a pet of Gobind Ram, along with his nearly 40 armed goondas attacked the family of Sardar Bhagwant Singh, who was not at home that day, and the his younger brother Sardar Harpal Singh, his spouse Manind¬erjit Kaur and old mother and father were beaten mercilessly. We feel the extent of repression has crossed all limits of civi¬lised behaviour in Punjab. Although we have covered only two areas, out of which Batala area shows peak of the graph, but we feel this is the general trend of repression in Punjab today.
  12. source: https://www.ihro.in/?q=node/106 INDIA’S BRUTAL CAMPAIGN IN PUNJAB DURING 1984-94 AGAINST SIKH LAWYERS, RIGHTS & POLITICAL ACTIVISTS This paper on ‘The human rights situation in Punjab during 1984-94’ was presented at ICSSR Complex, Punjab University, Chandigarh, on July 2, 2006, by International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO) during a Panel Discussion held by The Voices For Freedom India had launched a brutal campaign against Sikh lawyers, and human rights and political activists, in the state of Punjab. Main targets were those who have been opposing tooth and nail the state repression let loose on Sikh activists engaged in the ongoing Sikh struggle for an independent and sovereign state, and rendering legal aid to them in judicial courts. At least three Sikh lawyers, one human rights activist’s son and a journalist were liquidated at the hands of the Indian security forces as a result of this campaign. Many others were arrested, harassed and detained in jails only because of their activities as lawyers, journalists, leaders of political groups or religious organisations. According to International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO), at least 13 lawyers and about 20 human rights and political activists were said to be on the police’s hit-list, and the then Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association president Gian Chand Dhuriwala had advised some of the “marked” lawyers to shift elsewhere for saving theirs lives. Three Sikh lawyers- Kulwant Singh of Ropar, along with his spouse and two-year-old son; Jagwinder Singh of Kapurthala and Ranbir Singh of Bathinda- were done to death by the police after clandestinely taking them into custody. Earlier, Justice Ajit Singh Bains, a 70-year-old former High Court Judge and human rights activist, journalist Sukhdev Singh and advocates- Gurcharan Singh Ghuman and Jagmohan Singh- were arrested and detained in jails for months for their professional and human rights activities. Gurdip Singh, managing editor, Aj Di Awaz, has been terrorized into hibernation. Journalist Ram Singh Billing was picked up by the police, and he is feared to have been killed in custody. Avtar Singh Mander, a journalist of Ajit still remains disappeared at the hands of the police. And IHRO vice-president Dr. G. S. Mavi’s son Atamjit Singh, an 18-year-old BSc student, was picked up by the police and shot dead in cold blood in January 1992. The murderous campaign reached its zenith when the police clandestinely liquidated the former Akal Takht (the highest temporal and spiritual seat of the Sikhs) Chief Gurdev Singh Kaonke in custody. And, the then Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh used to issue “threats” to Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Gurcharn Singh Tohra and Akali Dal president Simranjit Singh Mann to mend their ways. Otherwise, “they will be arrested under TADA,” had said Beant Singh. The chief minister had wanted them to shut their mouth so that his administration could go on unchecked particularly on the law and order front. The energies of the IHRO were directed, during that period, against the manner in which New Delhi had tried to suppress and crush democracy in India, especially Punjab and Kashmir. Against this background, the IHRO had then become the target of the Indian State. The residence of IHRO General Secretary Mohinder Singh Grewal was raided on March 21, 1993, by the Ludhiana police. They picked up his 74-year-old father Rajinder Singh and took him to the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) staff. He was set free in the evening on the condition that we would produce Grewal, the next morning. Grewal went to the CIA police station along with his brother Apinder Singh, then a Councillor of the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation. The councillor was asked to leave, and Grewal was interrogated by a Delhi Police team, the whole day. The police team questioned about Grewal’s telephonic conversation with his maternal uncle’s son Sukhminder Singh Sandhu, and then lodged in a New York jail. He was made to sit in the police station till 9:00 PM. Thereafter, he was released with an instruction to present himself the next day for further interrogation. On March 23, the Delhi police team was assisted by a Superintendent of Police (Detective), Ludhiana, B. S. Gill. During interrogation, Grewal was manhandled and threatened for the consequences. Grewal informed Sukhminder’s defence lawyer Ms Mary Pike in USA about the incident vide his letter of March 25, saying: “B S Gill manhandled me and gave blows on my head. He asked me, “Have you stopped us by doing investigation reports against us (the police)? Could you do any thing in the case of Kulwant Singh Saini advocate? He also threatened that he would subject me to all methods of torture practically and thereby enable me to make a personal report on torture. He further threatened that he will also see D S Gill (Chairperson, IHRO), the same way soon.” After this, taking him along, Grewal’s home was raided and his personal telephone directory confiscated. They had probably noted down the telephone numbers of his friends and relations. He was released in the evening and again asked to come the next morning. On March 24, he was also interrogated by an Intelligence Bureau (IB) team for more than four hours. They asked him about the IHRO network in India and abroad. The police party allowed him to go home, asking him again to come to the CIA staff, the next afternoon. When Grewal went there on March 25, the investigation teams had left for Delhi. After few days the Delhi team again visited Ludhiana. They tried to contact Grewal. He was not there then. The team, before leaving for Delhi, told Grewal’s brother that they would contact Grewal in the very near future for the further interrogation. The investigating team did not tell why they were after Grewal. It was felt that he was being harassed and maltreated only because of his relation with Sukhminder Singh Sandhu. Grewal, along with D. S. Gill, was also a co-defender from India in the extradition proceedings pending against Sandhu and Ranjit Singh Gill in a US court. Being the general secretary of the organisation, Grewal was first among the investigators of the police crimes and was, therefore, targeted for exposing the police actions. Earlier, IHRO administration secretary Gurbhajan Singh Gill too was kept in illegal custody for a week. So, we (IHRO) saw a plot in it, thinking that “the police may implicate him or other IHRO activists in some criminal case or harm them physically.” The IHRO chapters abroad, then, alerted the international public opinion and governments against the nefarious designs of the Indian administration and the police. And that lobby worked well, and that was why we could protect Grewal and other activists’ lives from the brutal police. We, in IHRO, therefore, make fervent appeal to the international human rights agencies and defenders, including foreign missions here in India, of course, including The Voices For Freedom, to take notice of these state brutalities and to use their good offices for getting these matters judicially examined and then for pushing all those, including bureaucrats and politicians, found guilty.
  13. The justice of Akal Purakh is surely going to come. In the last 60 years, India has sown so much bad karma, that its end will be one of the most tragic ever. Infact, I feel the end of Indian empire is just around the corner. Gursikhs are very kind and forgiving people. Thats why I feel akal purakh is going to use muslims to ruin India. Its like a murderer killing a thief.hahaha
  14. The way things are going about in India, India is going to surely get divided in the near future and will suffer lots of destruction and devastation. Naxalites have become really strong. They must surely be getting lots of support from China. North east is a big trouble for India. Then there are 25 crore muslims to ruin India. India imports more than 75% of oil(now thats game over). In the future there will be food shortages, riots, wars, anarchy. After this devastation, I feel there will be khalsa raj that will include all the 5 Takhts and will be ruled by Guroo roop Punj Pyare. Regarding the KHalistan movement, it was one of the most successul movements as compared with the other freedom movements going around in this world. A dusht PM,CM and Army chief were sent to hell. But if u compare the khalistan movement with the 18th century, it was pretty poor. Lots of people sold out to money and became touts, lots of people used khalistan to get settled in Uk,usa and canada. The khalsa spirit of the 18 century was definately missing in this khalistan movement. But I feel future is surely going to be different. RAJ KAREGA KHALSA
  15. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45916 Colleges should plan - and teach - for an oil-scarce world by Scott Carlson Some years ago, bringing up "peak oil"—the concept that oil production will crest and then decline, leading to all sorts of trouble in society—might have made you seem like the kind of person who frequents Web sites that sell survival books and freeze-dried food. Today, such discussion has pretty much hit the mainstream. Last month, The Wall Street Journal featured a front-page story about two prominent geologists arguing over how much oil is left in the ground—and it noted that the view of the pessimistic geologist is "ascendant." Experts famously argue whether oil is past its peak, yet to hit its peak, or destined to hit its peak a long way off—as in, perhaps, a few decades from now. (Alternative fuels may swoop in to save the day, but no one should bank on that.) Here's the bottom line: Oil—our main transportation fuel and an integral part of every product we use—is a finite and dwindling resource. The current price increase should give higher-education institutions an opportunity to think about how they might fare if oil got really scarce. Robert K. Kaufmann, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, recently gave a seminar for journalists on the economics of the oil market. As oil goes up, the value of the dollar against the euro goes down; other energy sources, meanwhile, become expensive as they substitute for more-expensive oil. Today's oil prices may be inflated, he said, but they will not collapse as they did in the 1980s. Because demand is going up worldwide, uses for oil have concentrated in transportation and manufacturing (where alternatives to oil are difficult to come by), and oil fields outside of OPEC are in a production decline, what we are experiencing now is very likely a permanent trend. Mr. Kaufmann gave no date for a world production peak, offering various possibilities between 2014 and 2032. (A report by the U.S. government released last year said that oil production will probably peak sometime before 2040, but it was vague.) According to his analysis, within 10 years of the peak, alternative fuels would have to rise to the equivalent of 10 million barrels a day, or the current production of Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer. Most campuses plan to be up and running long after 2040. Consider the pain campuses are feeling now and how much worse it could be. Some colleges—like state colleges in Oklahoma—are already raising tuition to cover energy costs. College leaders, with help from facilities managers, sustainability directors, faculty members, and even students, should think hard about how systems on their campus would operate in an energy-scarce world. That thinking should range beyond running part of the campus fleet on a cafeteria's fryer oil, a seemingly-popular response at the moment. Look at food supply chains, for example, and how far food travels from field to dining hall (1,500 diesel-powered miles, on average). How do you heat and cool buildings, and is that new building in the campus master plan really necessary? (It's regrettable that this energy crisis comes at the end of a campus building boom.) Is your campus an integrated part of the community around it—friendly to pedestrians and affordable to students and staff members? Or is it a destination at the end of a long freeway drive? Brett Pasinella, a program coordinator at the University of New Hampshire's sustainability office in Durham, is thinking about some of these very issues with his colleagues. "You quickly run into problems and questions that go far beyond the standard internal university thinking and more into how the university fits into its region and its community," he says. "You run into the same problems that a town planner would run into." The most important question colleges should ask themselves: If students are getting squeezed by high energy prices, what will compel them to pay your tuition? A looming energy crisis offers a tremendous opportunity for colleges, and not just for the major research universities that are looking into algae biofuels and hydrogen fuel cells. Alternative fuels may not reach levels that will slake our tremendous thirst for oil, which now stands at about a quarter of the world's consumption. Coming generations may live in a world vastly different from the one we see now—more local, more interdependent, more efficient, and more creative. Colleges that offer an education that equips students to live in that world will remain relevant.
  16. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/au...airwaysbusiness More airlines will go bankrupt this year as rising fuel costs and weak consumer confidence ravage the industry, the chief executive of British Airways warned today. Willie Walsh said carriers that struggled to make a profit during the recent sales boom will not survive the "worst ever" trading environment the industry has seen. The downturn has put 25 airlines out of business this year, including Luton-based business carrier Silverjet. "You are going to see more airlines go bust. If you look around there are a lot of airlines out there that have not been profitable in the past few years. Those guys will not survive," he said. Walsh added that fares will rise by an average of around 3% for the rest of the financial year, as BA passes on higher fuel costs to ever fewer passengers. Fares are expected to increase towards the end of the year as airlines' fuel hedges, where carriers buy their fuel in advance at a fixed cost that is often cheaper than the current market price, come to a close. "As hedging unwinds within the industry, airlines are going to have to reflect the higher oil price. We will have to do something and it's not just BA that will have to adjust prices. The whole industry will have to. We are not reflecting the spot price [of oil] today. What is reflected in our fares is the oil price net of hedging." Higher fuel surcharges are also an option, but BA has already increased those significantly this year. Walsh said BA is now planning for an oil price of up to $150 (£76) per barrel - a level at which no carrier in the world can make a profit currently. The BA chief executive, who announced an 88% dive in first quarter profits today due to high oil prices, said the re-fashioned BA will have more fuel-efficient aircraft, better customer service and be focused on long-haul business class customers. "We are honest and realistic about this in a way that a lot of airlines are not. We have asked ourselves the question of what does the industry look like at $150 per barrel and what do we do to be one of the airlines that succeeds in that environment. We don't just want to hang in there." Walsh did not rule out further capacity cuts next summer, adding that BA will fly its older long-haul planes less often next year in order to cut fuel bill that now stands at £8m per day. "We are not talking about grounding aircraft but the average utilisation will come down slightly." He said he was "comfortable" with axing around 160 flights per week from BA's winter schedule because sales are always slower between October and March. He denied that the case for a third runway at Heathrow had been hit by recent capacity cuts at BA and other airlines, because long-term demand for commercial flights remains strong, he said.
  17. Who said this? Ragi Darshan. Its written in the 3 paragraph of the first post.
  18. This is what this guy wants "Who so ever belives in Dasam Granth to be Bani of Tenth Mster will be opposed tooth and nail . All Parkash/display of Dasam Granth done in any Gurdwaras will be got removed ." Now, thats the declaration of war against the Khalsa panth.
  19. I apologize if u find my post is crossing some line, but this guy has become a congress stooge. If he has doubt over Dasam Bani, why did he run away when he was called for a debate? There are quite a few sikhs who dont know the intentions of this guy and are going to believe this guy or atleast start having doubt over Dasam Bani. Thats a SERIOUS damage to the panth. Infact, such damage is much more harmful than the physical damage done to the panth in 80's. There are people who honestly have doubt over Dasam Bani but this guy is just doing it for money. He used to sing Dasam Bani himself and now all of a sudden he has taken a U turn. Shame on him.
  20. Exactly, oppressors and evil people shud be dealt with. Thats what our ancestors did. Thats what the great great sikh general Baba Banda Singh Jee Bahadur Jee did. Thats what Baba Jarnail Singh Jee Bhindrawale did. These people need to know that God exists and they will have to pay for their evil actions. JAI TEGA(N)!
  21. Chop the privates off, thats what I wud do and then shoot them point blank! wow dude, sounds like some kind of sharia law punishment from arabia. i agree they should be punished, but theres a line not to cross man. Raping a deaf and dumb bibi, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah cut his unmentionable part,roast it and make him eat it, cut his both arms and legs and DONT kill him, let him live like this, that will be his punishment.
  22. ZABARDASTT!!! AKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL! JAI TEGANN !!
  23. Tun nee boldaa, tun nee boldaaa, TERE CH TERA YAAR BOLDAAA
  24. Ragi Darshan Kumar Sarna is doing all this DELIBRATELY. He is on a mission to confuse sikhs by creating doubt over the contents of Sri Dasam Granth. Enemies of Khalsa panth are afraid of Dasam Bani, they are afraid of shastars, they are afraid of death and justice. So thats why they use sell-outs like ragi darsan kumar sarna to do false propagandas against the amrit-baani of Sri Dashmesh Pita.
  25. Source: https://www.ihro.in/?q=node/90 This is an official report full of proofs and investigation and not some individual's opinion. Shame on Indian democracy, judiciary and police. THE RAPE OF PUNJAB: Indian State’s Indignities on Sikh Women and Children HUMILIATED, TORTURED AND RAPED A team appointed by the Punjab Women's Forum has documented evidence of police terrorism directed against women in some villages of districts of Ludhiana and Batala. These cases provide glaring evidence of the continuing terrorism all over Punjab. Our pen cannot adequately convey to you the pain of these women. Their suffering cannot be easily felt or shared. These cases are living testimony to the suffering of the Sikh women. Background Since 1984 when Punjab came under the heel of Punjab police and many armed gangs, untold numbers of innocents have languished in jails, countless number of young persons has been killed by police in fake encounters and many others continue to be brutalized in new detention centres. Because of their political and religious views, some women too were caught in this web of violence but they were few. Instances include the repeated arrest of Bimal Kaur Khalsa (widow of Bhai Beant Singh); the arrest of the women singers (chorale) from Nabha, the arrest and continued detention in Jodhpur of many women arrested at the Golden Temple, Amritsar in June 1984 in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star; raids at the houses of the young people, the abusive interrogation of women; the arrest of the parents of the Panthic Committee member Wassan Singh Zaffar¬wal; the killing of a pregnant woman by the Border Security Police in district Gurdaspur, etc. One heart rendering incident occurred as follows: In searching for young men, 50 to 60 police surrounded a barn and without warning started firing. It was just past 7:0 p.m., when bullets started smashing windows. The women inside were petrified. Taking shock of the situation, some older women hid the children in closets. In spite of widespread firing all around her, the oldest woman in the house decided to come out of the house. She said, “I have lived my life and not now see children massacred in front of my eyes!" She came out and from behind a pillar shouted: "Stop firing- you can come in and search the house. There is nothing to hide." The police officers, drunk in liquor, however kept on firing. After 10 to 15 minutes, an officer gave the command to cease firing. During the search, no male was found. The persons in the family were in the city that day; 13 women and children were found. The police were abusive. In the winter's cold, children and women including the mother of a two-week old baby were forced of the house. Not even blankets were allowed to them. For the first time in December 1986, the armed units molested and raped women in village Brahampura, near Tarn Taran, in district Amritsar. When Avtar Singh Brahampura escaped the cordon of police, the police retaliated by venting their anger on innocent people, by beating them up and by raping and molesting five women. One of those young women spent the night without clothes, hiding behind some bushes. This angered the people so much that the government had to transfer the responsible battalion of Central Reserve Police Force out of that area but the people's demand of justice and trial of those responsible was never accepted. From mid-1987, atrocities on women by the police and armed gangs have crossed all limits of civilized behaviour. Incidents of violence are not part of any particular search operation for wanted people, raids or interrogation but occur because the Central government has granted unlimited powers to armed units so that they can suppress the voice of revolution in Punjab. The police and the security have started these atrocities on women for they have been unable to bring to submission the young people of Punjab by resorting to unlawful arrests, torture in special prisons and even killings in so-called encounters. This is a direct challenge to the self-respect and dignity of the people of Punjab. In order to collect facts, a three- member committee of the Punjab Nari Manch (Women's Forum) consisting of Dr. Jiwan Jot Kaur (Vice President of the IHRO); Miss Kamal Sandhu and Sri Ganpat, Advo¬cate toured some villages of Batala and Ludhiana districts. Some incidents of Batala District Batala subdivision lies in Gurdaspur district but has been made a special police district and the police have been granted special powers. This district has been subjected to maximum police bru¬tality. Law of the jungle prevails in this area, the domain of Senior Superintendent Govind Ram. In addition, because of their special powers, the persons of BSF and CRPF terrorise everybody. There is hardly a village among the 40 to 50 villages surrounding the Hargobindpur police precinct where the people have not been suppressed at the hands of the police. This investigation team found the following instances of police brutality of women. Ajit Singh Shah and his family live on a farm on the outskirts of village Padha, Police post Hargobindpur. One night, some armed young persons came to the farm and at the point of a gun, demanded and received food and shelter for one night. In the morning, leaving a person behind them took a sick associate into town. The police raided the house at dawn and arrested the one person who had been left behind. For the next one-and-a- half hours he was brutally interrogated and finally shot dead. The whole family was taken out of the house, kicked and beaten with gun butts. Bibi Sukhwinder Kaur, wife of Balwant Singh (son of Ajit Singh Shah) told us: "We were beaten by the police and the BSF. I was hit with boots and stepped on. They used vulgar abusive language and demanded to know why we had provided food for the young rebels. We replied that we had to provide food for they had guns. The police accused us of sleeping with the rebels. What are we to do? Don't we have any self-respect or dignity? Can they say what they like? When the rebels come with guns what are we to do? Our licensed and registered weapons have already been confiscated by the Government. This happened in December 1988. Those days were very cold. The police forced the men out of the house and made them remove their clothes. We were then forced to sit with them. You know, I normally keep my head averted from my father-in-law. I was feeling very embarrassed but was helpless. After about 2 hours, the men were allowed to put clothes. Then they took my father-in-law, my husband, our guest and myself to the police station. I was kept there for 5 days. There was no woman cop either at the time of the arrest or at the station." Daljit Kaur, daughter of Shiv Singh of village Nadha was told by the police that she was summoned by her aunt. When the family members refused to send this Sikh girl alone, the police dragged her away. The mother, Piar Kaur went along with her. Both were kept at the police station overnight. Members of this family are still in jail; the remaining women of the family live out on the farm passing their days in fear. She also told us that the police had looted their house. The same day, another incident occurred in Padha village. On hearing gunfire, the village chief, Sohan Singh, a retired army person, asked the guard to summon members of the village council. He stated: "Only four rounds had been fired. We were in the village when the Senior Superintendent of Police came with his Force and started abusing us. He was angry that we had not gone to receive some dignitary who was visiting. He then started beating us and using profane language." Sohan Singh interceded, saying: "Please stop. You have beaten us enough. Do not abuse us further." This further infuriated the SSP. We were all humiliated by having to rub our noses on the ground a hundred times each. We were then taken to the Gurdwara and forced to deliver speeches abusive of the rebels. The village council members are old yet they were dragged to the police station and locked in a cell overnight with about 90 inmates. There was not enough room to sit and they had to stand all night. They were released 24 hours later. Whether these events occurred in the house of Ajit Singh Shah or with the council members, they occurred in presence of, and under the direct orders of, Senior Superintendent of police Govind Ram. Village Ballewal The investigation team met Manjit Kaur (wife) and Prakash Kaur (mother) of Nirvar Singh Ballewal, a minister at a Gurdwara Shaheedan, Amritsar. Nirvar Singh was shot dead by police on the steps of the temple and removed in a jeep. Manjit Kaur ran after the police. They beat her with rifle butts. People rescued her. On 24 September 1987, it was learned that an extremist had been killed. Some people claimed the dead body of Nirvar Singh from the police and returned it to the family. His younger brother, Kulwant Singh had joined the rebels. The police raided his house a number of times looking for Kulwant. His mother Prakash Kaur had been taken to the police station for interrogation about 15 times. During one of the raids, another younger brother, Dilbagh Singh, a minister at Baba Bakala Gurdwara, hid behind the house. The police shot Dilbagh in the back and killed him. The team saw bullet marks on a wall of the house. Manjit Kaur was badly beaten and dragged by the hair to a wheat field. After about an hour and a half of torture, she fainted and was thrown over the body of Dilbagh Singh with a taunt: "Now get your Khalistan." Her hands and feet were so badly swollen that she could not get out of bed for several days and she was bleeding from her scalp. This oc¬curred on May 2, 1988. Dharam Singh, the village head, lives near Nirvar Singh. He and his family are eyewitnesses to this account. When he arrived at the scene, he was beaten by the police and warned not to pursue this matter. Pritam Singh is a schoolteacher at Ballewal. He and his spouse Shavinder Kaur have two grown-up sons. Even this family could not escape the clutches of the police. Pritam Singh's only fault was that he was the uncle of Dilbagh, Nirvar and Kulwant. Shavinder Kaur had been taken to the police station three times and was detained there for three nights once and two nights the other times. Their son, Harjit Singh, was in custody for ten days without being charged. He was beaten and was asked to give infor¬mation about Kulwant Singh. Now Kulwant has been arrested yet this family has not been let alone. Now the demand is to give information about Balvinder Singh, from a neighbouring village. The elderly mother and Shavinder Kaur told us “the police humiliate us during their raids. They use profanity that we are too embarrassed to report to you. We were arrested by male police and there were no female police even at the police station. We are so scared that we are frightened of any unusual sounds." Swaran Kaur, the unmarried daughter of Assa Singh of village Ballewal, was kept in custody at the Dayanand Anglo Vedic School, Kadian by the BSF. She was arrested allegedly for harbouring extremists but was never charged. Assa Singh is a minister at the Gurdwara at Shahpur. He admitted that some months earlier at a sermon he had recommended that people should abstain from alcohol and should not have marriage parties of more than 10 people. The village council was summoned by the police and offered weapons to defend the village. When they expressed their inability to do so, the council members were arrested and kept in jail overnight. This occurred on January 16-17, 1989. Village Sarchur On January 10, Govind Ram accompanied by several police officers and BSF troops raided Sarchur. This village of 4,000 people is about 18 kilometres from Batala. The people of Sarchur and neighbouring villages Kotlik Bhangali Nasirke, Peherowal, etc., were assembled at the focal point of Sarchur. They were abused orally and accused of sheltering extremists and offering their daughters to them. The young persons were forced to lie prone on the ground and were beaten with sticks, belts and gun butt until their skins peeled. This was done for one hour. People were screaming but Govind Ram was not satisfied. He ordered people to repeat slogans after him berating a woman of the village, Surjit Kaur and her two daughters, Manjit Kaur (15 years) and Rajinder Kaur (10 years). Surjit Kaur is an Akali leader of the village and has been imprisoned for 5 months. A retired army officer, Charan Singh, could no longer tolerate this and refused to join in the slogans. He was seized, put in a truck, taken to the police station and kept at Fatehgarh Churian Police Station for three days. Govind Ram taunted that when Surjit Kaur comes out of the jail he would see to it that she is paraded without clothes through the village. Before returning, he threatened the women with dire consequences if they protested against his behaviour. Some families then sent their daughters to relatives far away. Earlier Surjit Kaur was badly beaten by the police. Both her daughters had been taken to the police station as well. Mari Buchian When the Sikh Students Federation took control of the Gurdwaras, the management of Gurdwara Damdama Sahib, Hargobindpur became a matter of dispute. Therefore, the village council requested the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to assume the management. The committee pleaded its inability to do so, and unanimously assigned this responsibility to Bhagwant Singh of Damdami Taksal. Everybody vouched for this man's integrity. Ajit Singh Poola of that area is in league with the police. He maintains 40 to 50 armed guards. On January 18, 1989, at about 6:00 p.m., Ajit and his guards attacked Bhagwant's home. He claimed that he wanted to search the place. Bhagwant was not at home; his spouse was visiting her parents with the children. After the search, they started dragging his brother Harpal Singh, a Science teacher at Ghuman, who lives with them. Harpal Singh resisted and hung into the window grill. Then he was carrying his two-year-old son in his arms. They grabbed the child and threw him away. In this tussle, Harpal's hands were badly injured; signs of the injury were seen by the team. His spouse Maninderjit Kaur and mother Gurbachan Kaur pleaded with them but were also kicked and accused of harbouring extremists. The houses were looted. The team noted that the police had supported groups of raiders like these who commit acts of vandalism. This was confirmed by the lawyers at Batala. Once such people were caught in two scooters stealing incidents and the arms found on them, had been regis¬tered with the police. Some knowledgeable people who wish to remain anonymous and some lawyers claim that crimes in this area are being committed by police supported gangs. In village Cheema, police post Hargobindpur, a young person named Jugraj Singh had joined the rebels several years earlier and is now known as Tufaan Singh. He is the only brother of five sis¬ters. Two or three times, police had brought his sisters to the police station and the village council had gotten them released. Now the police badly mistreated the sisters and their mother. Finally tiring of this, the family left the village. All this happened after Govind Ram took charge of the police in this area. In Sundwa village (police post Hargobindpur), the spouse and daugh¬ter-in-law of Dalip Singh have been accused of sheltering extrem¬ists. In village Tapiala, Hargobindpur police post, Gurmej Kaur, spouse of Bhagwan Singh was badly beaten. Their house was destroyed and set on fire. Their son was killed. They were accused of harbouring extremists. Nirmal Kaur of village Sundwa, police post Hargobindpur, was accused of sheltering extremists. Women and children were assembled at the focal point of Nassarpu¬ra and badly beaten. Women were beaten at Kadian village. Some had their wrists bro¬ken. When the village council went to the police station to demonstrate, they were treated very badly. The village council of Buttar went also to complain about police harassment and misuse of power. In turn, they were badly treated and beaten up. Many more cases from the neighbouring areas had come to the attention of the team but could not be pursued be¬cause of lack of time. The team felt that women hesitated to tell them about their mistreatment because of social and familial considerations. The team also noted the mistreatment by the police of the village councillors. Whereas, according to law, every time that the police go into a village, it should consult with the council. Such consultation never occurred and when the council members went to the police station to protest against the mistreatment of women they were themselves beaten, abused and treated as traitors. For this reason, 21 councils submitted their resignations to the Deputy Commissioner of district Gurdaspur. At Talwandi Lal Singh village, Gian Singh was arrested. His spouse Prakash Kaur was forced to lie on the ground and police officers stood on wooden planks on her thighs. She was screaming and another police officer stood on the chest of her ten-year-old son. Afterwards the police took her away and at 10:00 p.m., in the midwinter she was dropped off on a bridge leading to the village. This was stated by Gurdial Singh of that village, in the presence of Deputy Commissioner, Dalsair Singh Kalia and Sub Divisional Magistrate, Kulwant Singh and was reported in the Tribune on January 3, 1989. The village head of Harbhajan told a gathering at Harcharanpur village that a child returning from school was taken away by the BSF and released only after 14 days of torture. Gurdev Singh, 44 years old, also of this village was killed in fake encounter by the police. This was reported by the Tribune on January 3, 1989. A conference on people's power was organised at village Sunderpu¬ra in Batala police district that was addressed by the Punjab Governor S. S. Ray who asked for the people’s co-operation. The people related their stories of police excesses to the Governor. Ray appeared shocked and ordered an inquiry into the incidents at Mari Buchian. The Governor admitted that the cases of two women had been handled by police officers and not police officers. The truth is that there are many more incidents like this. From every village the women have been taken to police stations where there are no women constables. Ambo, the mother of Jagdish, village Shankarpur; Prakash Kaur spouse of Gian Singh village Rakhia; Kulwant Kaur mother of Bal¬vinder Singh, village of Shankarpur related many incidents of police atrocities at the conference on people's power. After the incident at village Padha, a police force of 11 jeeps under the command of Govind Ram raided the house of Sital Singh, which is on the outskirts of village Mattewal and brutalised his wife and sister-in-law. Two years earlier also a police officer had pushed the spouse against a wall so that her skull was fractured. In December 1988, about 200 police and BSF troops raided the house of the head of village Ghogey. His servant and spouse were badly beaten. When the head of the village Kotla went to protest police atrocities, his spouse was beaten. An elderly woman of village Kastiwal told us that her son is so scared of the police that he has not returned home in 4 years. The police have arrested him several times and have looted the house. Events of Ludhiana Districts Arvinder Kaur Khalsa, unmarried daughter of Ranjit Singh of village Kila Raipur was arrested on July 9, 1987. She was re¬leased and re-arrested on September 7, 1987, under the National Security Act. The courts ordered her release but she was arrested for the third time when somebody shot a person named Jagvinder Singh. For there to four days, she was tortured at the police station Dehlon. On July 10, a case was registered against her of harbouring extremists. The case has now been dismissed by the special court. Kuldip Kaur, widow of Darshan Singh, village Chomon, was arrested by the police and tortured for 15 days. She was paraded around naked for 5 days in Ahmedgarh Police Station. On October 21, 1988, she was charged with harbouring extremists and possessing stolen property. At present, her case is in the court of Magistrate Mr. Katari in which the widow has complained of being dishonoured by the police. Nachhattar Kaur, spouse of Charan Singh, village Chak Sarawa Nath, was arrested from her home and detained at the police station for 3 to 4 days. She was subjected to abusive language and mistreat¬ed. Case no: 159 were registered against her on December 15, 1988, for his activities under the Anti Terrorist Act. Gurmel Kaur, spouse of Ajit Singh and Jarnail Kaur, spouse of Harbans Singh, both of village Chhandran, police post Sahnewal, were arrested along with Nachhattar Kaur. Jaswant Kaur spouse of Avtar Singh, village Kila Ajnaud police post Khanna had gone to attend a funeral ceremony. The police took her to the police station, tortured her for one day and booked her under the Anti Terrorist Act and for speaking against the Government. After she was bailed out, she told the people about atrocities against her and others. She was then re-arrested on February 14, 1989, and badly tortured on February 19 and remanded to prison on February 21. Prof. Rajinderpal Singh Gill of the Punjab Agricultural Universi¬ty was killed by the police in a fake encounter. His spouse Rajind¬er Kaur Gill MA was arrested by the focal point police of Ludhiana on December 12, 1988, and tortured under the instructions of the inspector. A case for harbouring terrorist was registered against her on December 13, 1988. Krishna spouse of Hardev Singh of village Ghabbadi is mother of five daughters and a son. A head constable has repeatedly threat¬ened to kill her son. Two of her daughters were arrested (one of BA student) and dishonoured at the Sadar police station by the head constable Darshan Singh and others. Case no: 370 were regis¬tered against them on December 15, 1988. Krishna’s spouse was also arrested but in now on bail. Charanjit Singh Channi, son of Master Devraj Singh Talwandi Ex-MLA, has joined the rebels and the police have been looking for him. His spouse Harbans Kaur and sister-in-law Jasvir Kaur were arrested and warned that Harbans Kaur's two young children 2.5 and 4.5 years old would be tortured. The unmarried sister of Channi was also taken to Raikot police station, insulted and warned that her family would be eliminated. However, some influential people were able to get her released. (Channi was killed in a fake encounter by the Ropar Police in June 1989) Jaswant Kaur’s daughter Manjit Kaur, of Jagroan village, was arrested along with her children. The police took her to a secret hiding place and her parents had no idea where she was for many days. Manjit's mother has also been arrested several times. This chronicle of police atrocities is hardly complete. It is impossible to survey all the villages of Punjab. People are afraid even to speak. When an old person was asked why he does not report this behaviour of the police, he answered that lives have been lost and if he reports on them, they will kill us and blame the extremists for the deaths. Now another phenomenon has come to our attention, that is, the work of armed gangs under the direction of the police. Many incidents of this nature have come to our attention but are beyond the scope of this report. The excesses of the police are commonplace; these practices can be traced back to the top brass of the police and Central government in Delhi. The judgement of who is an extremist is in the hands of the police and not the courts. We feel the extent of repression has crossed all limits of civi¬lized behaviour in Punjab. Although we have covered only two areas, of which Batala area is the worst affected, it forms only the tip of the ice-berg of what is happening all over Punjab.
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