Singh, Mahan

A description of June 1984 attack on Darbar Sahib - (Operation Blue Star)

. Link to the source of the article in post #13 (posted by Isingh) Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/i-wish-we-get-to-grow-old-together.-it-happens-in-the-movies.../1120808/

Source: http://www.panthic.org/articles/5503 LAW SUIT AGAINST BADAL - SIKH HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP TO CHALLENGE DISMISSAL IN US COURT OF APPEALS PANTHIC.ORG | Published on May 21, 2013 Case of "Witness Tampering" Not of "Mistaken Identity" - Claims SFJ NEW YORK, NY - Human rights group, Sikhs for Justice stated that they will take the human rights violation case against CM Badal to the US Court of Appeals asking for a remand to depose CM Badal personally before a US Federal Judge on the issue of the service of summons. In its May 17 order, the US District Court in Wisconsin ruled that Badal was never served with the court summons as being claimed by the rights group 'Sikh for Justice' (SJF), which had filed the case against him. Sikhs for Justice stated that they will approach US Court of Appeals to challenge the Judge Adelman's ruling dismissing the lawsuit and will present evidence establishing witness tampering; obstruction of justice and harassment of US based victims of human rights violation by CM Badal. SFJ have retained the services of a top Chicago based law firm and famed Super Lawyers "Pavich Law Group" with Honorable Ian Levin, a former US Federal Judge, who have experience in cases related to human rights violations filed under Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Victim Protection Act. "The appeal to the US Circuit Court will be based on that Judge Adelman erred in his ruling while dismissing the law suit on the ground that that it is a simple case of "mistaken identity" and a US Department of Justice interpreter received the summons instead of CM Badal. Judge while ruling failed to consider the Badal's inability to produce any direct evidence that he was in fact at Boelter Superstore and not at the Oak Creek High School during the crucial period from 4:40 pm to 5:10 PM on August 09; refusal to grant additional time to the SFJ for discovery of evidence showing nexus between Badal, Kalra and other witnesses; and not allowing to depose Badal who is the main witness on the issue of service." stated the press release of SFJ. The SFJ statement further noted that "Surinderpal Singh Kalra an ex-Director of World Sikh Council, who claims to have received summons instead of CM Badal, testified before the Judge Adelman that he had no knowledge about the lawsuit against CM Badal until February 2013 when he accidently found the original summons in the trunk of his car, he "did not know that papers received by him on August 09 2012 were summons issued against CM Badal"?" The rights group further noted that Judge Adelman should have strike down Kalra's testimony and disqualified him as witness, because Kalra admitted during his deposition that he "remained in closed door meeting with Punjab Government Officials at Hotel Pfister in Milwaukee on February 21 immediately prior to testifying in the court." Kalra could not explain to the Court purpose of his three hour long meeting with Badal government agents Ananya Gautam DIG Counter Intelligence, Sanjeev K Rampal SSP and head of CM Badal's security chief and Advocate General Sidhu. Claiming the case to be of "witness tampering" and "obstruction of justice" and not of mistaken identity as ruled by Judge Adelman, attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, legal advisor to SJF stated that evidence will be produced before Circuit Court of Appeals showing that before successfully coaxing Karla to falsely claim to have been served, agents of CM Badal had approached several members of Sikh community asking them to testify that they had received the summons on August 09 instead of CM Badal. SFJ and SAD (Amritsar) a political party headed by Simranjit Singh Mann filed a human rights violations case against CM Badal on charges of commanding and shielding the police force which is responsible for extra judicial killings and continuous human rights violations against the Sikh community in Punjab.

In my opinion, the translation # 3 is closest to what is being said in Gurmukhi. However, the literal translation of that ‘tuk’ from Japji Sahib is as follow: By (just –merely) thinking (thinking alone) one can not think of (comprehend) even if one thinks millions of time ….. (when one reads this in context of rest of the ‘pauri’ the word thinking means thinking of Nirankar/ waheguru and of His greatness and vastness) Sochai = By thinking (in context here it conveys the meaning - By thinking alone) soch na hovai = cant think – can not be thought of je sochi lakh // = (even) if thought lakhs (millions) of times

Source: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sfj-to-challenge-dismissal-of-case-against-badal-in-us/1118555/ SFJ to challenge dismissal of case against Badal in US Lalit K Jha Washington, Tue May 21 2013, 03:06 hrs A US-based Sikh group Monday said it will challenge the decision of an American district court last Friday to dismiss alleged human rights violations case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. The Sikh for Justice (SFJ), which had filed the case against Badal last year, said it will appeal against the order in the US Court of Appeals asking for a remand to depose Badal personally before a US Federal Judge on the issue of the service of summons. SFJ has retained the services of a top Chicago based law firm and famed Super Lawyers "Pavich Law Group" with Ian Levin, a former US federal judge, who have experience in cases related to human rights violations filed under Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Victim Protection Act, the rights group said in a statement. In its order, the District Court in Wisconsin on May 17 ruled that Badal was never served with the court summons as being claimed by the Sikh for Justice. In fact judge Jynn Adelman, in his five page order, said that Sikh for Justice came out with "creative" but unconvincing argument that the court summons were served to Badal, which indeed was served by Christopher Kratochvil and his brother on behalf of SFJ to one Surinderpal Singh Kalra, believing that he was the Punjab Chief Minister. In a statement, SFJ said the appeal to the US Circuit Court will be based on that "Judge Adelman erred in his ruling while dismissing the law suit on the ground that it is a simple case of "mistaken identity" and a US Department of Justice interpreter received the summons instead of Badal". Sikh for Justice in its court case alleged that Badal violated the Torture Victim Protection Act and the Alien Tort Statute in Punjab. .

Source: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/208136071.html Judge dismisses Sikh group lawsuit filed in wake of Oak Creek temple shootingBy Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel May 20, 2013 10:12 a.m. A judge has dismissed a Sikh group's U.S. lawsuit against a Indian official who was in Wisconsin last year in the wake of the mass shooting at the Sikh temple at Oak Creek. After months of litigation, conflicting testimony and suggestion of a government coverup, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman ruled Friday that the lawsuit was never served on the defendant, Parkash Singh Badal. Sikhs for Justice vow to appeal, saying what Adelman terms a case mistaken identity is actually a matter of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Sikhs for Justice sued in Milwaukee under the federal Torture Victim Protection and Alien Tort laws, which grants jurisdiction in U.S. courts. The suit contends that Badal oversaw torture and murder of Sikhs in India, where the religious minority has been the subject of persecution by the Hindu majority. Badal was in the Milwaukee area last summer to attend local businessman Darshan Dhaliwal's daughter's wedding .Because his region is home to thousands of Sikhs, Badal found himself thrust into the news as he met with temple shooting survivors and spoke to area reporters. Two West Allis men swore under oath they served the summons and complaint on Badal during a Department of Justice forum at Oak Creek High School on Aug. 9, days after the temple shooting. A U.S. State Department diplomatic protection agent testified in February that Badal was not at the high school that day, but out shopping prior to a wedding he was in Wisconsin to attend that weekend. Badal's attorneys also put on an Illinois man who said he was the forum to act as interpreter. He said he was handed papers that he then left in his car trunk for months until people associated with Badal started asking him for an affidavit. He didn't find the actual summons and complaint until three days before his testimony in February, he said. Other witnesses said they had seen Badal at the State Fair, Watts Tea Room and Boelter Superstore on the day in question. Oak Creek's chief of police said he did not see Badal at the forum. "Defendant’s witnesses were uniformly credible. In combination, they presented a mountain of evidence supporting defendant’s version of the events of August 9," Adelman wrote. "I have no doubt that (process servers) Christopher Kratochvil and his brother sincerely believe that they served defendant, but I conclude that they made an honest mistake, one that was understandable under the unusual circumstances of this case." The plaintiffs raised several points of their own, like why there was no video of Badal at the Boelter store, why armed State Department agents confronted Kratochvil at his home and would not produce -- even for Adelman's eyes -- a statement they say Kratochvil signed. They also argued that the interpreter who claimed he was the one mistakenly served, was simply not credible, and that he was improperly influenced by Punjab officials who spent three hours with him at the Pfister Hotel prior to his testimony. In their final written brief, the attorneys for Sikhs for Justice had invoked the so-called missing witness rule, arguing that Badal's attorneys never produced even an affidavit from the Punjab official denying that he was served.

I had not heard the name of Dr Parmjit Singh Sumra before I read that article . However, I am thankful that I am made aware that Dr attached to Dr. Parmjit Singh Sumra is fake. I shall keep that in mind if ever I happen to read again something written by him - that he is a fake Dr.

1 ---- In the video the aggrieved women who supported the campaign and supported Nirpreet Kaur are asking who are these people who have come there to highjack their “dharana”. They are not opposing Bibi Nirpreet Kaur, but they are speaking out and questioning why Bibi Nirpreet Kaur has been isolated from them, Why these political figures have come there , if they are there to torpedo their campaign. Bibi Nirpreet Kaur can be seen sitting on a chair. To her right is Parkash Singh Badal on the chair to her left are Avtar Singh Makkar and Jathedar Gurbachan Singh. In front of her is Sukhbir Badal, behind her is Mr. Sirsa. She seemed to be completely isolated from her own companions. The women who came to that site were made to sit further away from the stage . The stage was completely surrounded by the Akalis. When they saw Jathedar Gurbachan Singh assisted by Avtar Singh Makkar hand over the glass of juice , to their surprise and in their shock the women let loose their emotions. The women are saying that in a week or so they will start the campaign again and no BJP, no Congress and no Badals will be allowed to disrupt (or end ) that campaign. There is nothing there that could be misunderstood what the women are saying. If there is still any doubt what they are saying listen to the last few minutes of the video again. 2 ---- In the post #1 above the last URL refers to an article attributed to Bibi Niirpreet Kaur . ( Ref to URL http://www.punjabspectrum.com/2013/05/7587 ). In that article read the last 4 or 5 paragraphs to get the gist of what Bibi Nirpreet Kaur is saying about those who came there and about the Jathedar Gurbachan Singh in particular. 3 --- About the setting. An evening before some Akalis came to where the “Dharna” was being staged and set up a parallel stage saying that next day a large contingent of people was coming, so they were setting a separate stage to accommodate them. Next day when Akali leaders showed up, they asked Bibi Nirpreet Kaur to sit with them on their stage (the second stage). Seeing Jathedar Gurbachan Singh, she obediently moved to the other stage. Her companions were not invited. After a few minutes they (her supporters) too started to leave their own stage moved to the second stage protesting and asking why their campaign was being hijacked. However, They were being asked by the Akalis to sit away from the stage. (presumably for reasons of security of Akali leaders) )

IN PAISE OF BADAL AND HIS MEN ! Confused? See this video and make out what you want.

Bibi Nirpreet Kaur ends her hunger strike. It is reported that after Akali Dal Badal’s meeting in New Delhi, she was persuaded to endthe hunger strike. Now question is being asked what did Badals tell Bibi Nirpreet Kaur that she ended the hunger strike? Has there actually been anything achieved or is it Badal's one more false promise like the ones that they make to play political games to stay in news to appear to be doing some thing for the Sikh community?

http://www.punjabspectrum.com/2013/05/6534 A few days ago an article by Dr. Parmjt Singh Sumra was pulished in one of the Punjabi vernacular newspaper. I think it was in The Paheredar. Now I can not locate that article. However I found the same article published on an other internet web site. In that article Dr. Sumra has given a sensational account of who Sarbjit Singh was and what the background of his sister (Dalbir Kaur) is. He also raises the question about how a drunken man could safely cross a densely strung electrified barbed wire that runs along the entire border of Pakistan and Punjab, and the show up in Lahore . Dr. Sumra also traces the relationship of Dalbir Kaur with Puhlla Nihang ( who killed several Sikh families and was a special agent of Indian agencies and was collaborating with Samedh Saini, the present day Director General of Punjab Police)). Dr. Sumra has also made allegations against Ameriko (Amrik Kaur) who was Puhla Nihang’s girlfriend and a special friend of Dalbir Kaur. In his allegations Dr. Sumra says that Amriko and Dalbiro (Sarbjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur) used to take money from young men on the pretext of getting them jobs with Punjab Police, but then after that they would report to Sameth Saini who would arrange false encounters to kill those men claiming them to be 'Kharkoos'. Those who can read Punjabi should read the article at http://www.punjabspectrum.com/2013/05/6534 . .

Source: http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2013/05/05/recognize-bhindranwale-as-symbol-of-oppressed-south-asian-minorities/ Recognize Bhindranwale as symbol of oppressed South Asian Minorities By Parmjit Singh Published: May 5, 2013Amritsar, Punjab (May 05, 2013): Sikh Information Centre (SIC) has issued the following policy statement in response to demands for removal of the reverend Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s name from the Saka June 1984 memorial at the Darbar Sahib, Amritsar: ****************** Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s name is inscribed on a brand-new memorial of the victims of Operation Bluestar. The memorial at the Golden Temple has angered the political establishment, who stirred up controversy by demanding censorship of Bhindranwale’s name. At the strong-arming of political party Shiromani Akali Dal, the temple committee recently bowed to political pressure by removing a photo of Bhindranwale displayed in another area of the temple. The Sikh Information Centre calls on the Sikh people, the democratic citizens of India, and every defender of international human rights to oppose this act of censorship. The censorship of the contributions of Bhindranwale is as grievous a crime as would be censorship of the civil rights heroes who were killed at Tiananmen Square. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale was murdered in 1984 in an unprovoked attack by the Indian Army on peaceful citizens. In 21st century India, tyrants are made chief ministers. Leading citizens are arrested for protesting tyranny. Human rights activists are eliminated. Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, and Sikhs are slaughtered by the untold thousands. Killers are rewarded. Murderers are exonerated by the courts. Bhindranwale remains an enduring symbol of hope for millions of South Asian minorities who are presently being actively oppressed by the Indian State. Bhindranwale’s leadership in the South Asian Civil Rights Movement began in the mid-1970s during the constitutionally permitted establishment of a dictatorship by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. From 1975 to 1977, PM Gandhi suspended elections and launched a war against her political opponents. False imprisonment, framed charges, torture, and extralegal killing became standard operating procedures for Indian security forces throughout the entire subcontinent during the Emergency. Police acted without any restraint of any kind. Forced sterilizations were performed on thousands of people from low-castes and other minority groups determined by the ruling power to be “undesirable stock.” The only sustained and peaceful voice of resistance came from the Sikh people. By 1977, 140,000 protesters against the Emergency had been imprisoned without charges or trial; of these, 60,000 were Sikhs, though they constitute barely two percent of India’s population. The headquarters of this protest movement was the Golden Temple in the holy city of Amritsar in Punjab. One of the leading voices of protest was Kartar Singh, the senior preacher of Sikh seminar Damdami Taksal. Kartar Singh, who mentored Bhindranwale as his successor, is particularly remembered for publicly rebuking PM Gandhi’s “throne of Delhi” during her appearance at the 300th anniversary of the assassination of Guru Tegh Bahadur by the dictatorial Mughal regime. Upon his death, Kartar Singh’s mantle was assumed by Bhindranwale. After lifting the Emergency and a brief absence from office, PM Gandhi resumed active oppression of her political opponents in 1980. This time her greatest opposition was from the Sikh people in Punjab. Bhindranwale was now the most vocal voice. He traveled the countryside, preaching a faith of individual responsibility, hard work, equal rights, and a peaceful lifestyle. Simultaneously, he organized democratic action to protest tyrannical treatment by the central government. An example of this treatment is the Gandhi regime’s 1980 dismissal of Punjab’s democratically elected state government and imposition of direct dictatorial rule from New Delhi using a constitutional measure called President’s Rule. In April 1982, the oppression of dissent by minorities escalated when the Gandhi regime employed infiltration and subterfuge to provoke communal conflict and destabilize Punjab. Clandestine agents of the Gandhi regime (as later divulged by an agent involved) planted severed cow heads at two Hindu temples in Amritsar, sparking the first Hindu-Sikh riots in recorded history. A note left at the staged crime claimed Sikh responsibility — an inexplicable claim, considering Sikhs, especially devout religious Sikhs such as Bhindranwale, are vegetarians who have historically opposed cow slaughter. The issue is highly sensitive in India, where cows are often legally protected and widely worshipped by the Hindu population. Indian State oppression spread like wildfire in Summer 1982. In just under three months, 30,000 peaceful Sikh protesters were indefinitely detained. The movement was led by a joint coalition of Sikh preacher Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and the Sikh political party Shiromani Akali Dal. Operation Bluestar was carried out in 1984 to silence Bhindranwale, whom PM Gandhi seems to have believed had gained too powerful of an influence in Punjab. The military siege was launched at the height of the 378th anniversary of the assassination of Guru Arjan Dev (also by the Mughal regime), a summer festival during which hundreds of thousands visit the Golden Temple. The Indian Army surrounded the temple complex with 15,000 troops armed with heavy artillery, tanks, and helicopters. Bhindranwale, who was at the temple, was accompanied by a congregation of only a few hundred. Without provocation, the army fired the first shot on June 3. Simultaneous assaults on smaller Sikh temples throughout India also occurred. When hostilities ceased on June 6, approximately 10,000 Sikhs had been killed and 30,000 made homeless. Among the dead was Bhindranwale. Finally, in October 1984, PM Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards for violating the Golden Temple with bloodshed. Subsequently, a three-day genocide of Sikhs was orchestrated in New Delhi by Congress Party Parliament Members, who distributed weapons, awarded cash bounties, and directed mobs to indiscriminately murder Sikhs and burn temples. Independent estimates of the dead range from 15,000 to 30,000. It was this action which inspired an 11-year insurgency and motivated mass Punjabi migration to the United States and other western nations. The insurgency died out in 1995 after Indian police murdered human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, whose work exposing the secret genocide of 25,000 unarmed Sikhs had just gained international prominence. Khalra was abducted from his family home in September 1995, imprisoned and tortured for two months, then killed and dumped in a canal by police. Oppression extended far beyond the borders of the State of Punjab. Most major regions in India were affected by some similar form of social unrest provoked by tyrannical treatment from the Indian State. Among these was Kashmir, where in March 1996 another peaceful human rights activist named Jalil Andrabi was murdered by Indian Police and dumped in the Jhelum River. He had just exposed the genocide of Muslims in Kashmir, reporting: “More than 40,000 people have been killed, which include all — old, men and children, women, sick and infirm. The youth of Kashmir have been mowed down. They are tortured in torture cells and… thousands of youth have been killed in police custody. These atrocities being committed on the people of Kashmir are not mere aberrations. These are part of deliberate and systematic state policy… aimed to silence the people of Kashmir into subjugation.” Nothing has changed. South Asian minorities from every region of the subcontinent remain targets of intentional persecution by Indian State security forces. The Indian State remains the greatest threat to the liberty, peace, and prosperity of the individual South Asian. This is confirmed in the U.S. State Department’s 2012 “Human Rights Practices Report” on India, which states: “The most significant human rights problems were police and security force abuses, including extrajudicial killings, torture, and rape; widespread corruption at all levels of government, leading to denial of justice; and separatist, insurgent, and societal violence. “Other human rights problems included disappearances, poor prison conditions that were frequently life-threatening, arbitrary arrest and detention, and lengthy pretrial detention. The judiciary was overburdened, and court backlogs led to lengthy delays or the denial of justice. Authorities continued to infringe on citizens’ privacy rights. The law in some states restricted religious conversion, and there were reports of arrests, but no reports of convictions under these laws. There were some limits on freedom of movement…. “Widespread impunity at all levels of government remained a serious problem. Investigations into individual cases and legal punishment for perpetrators occurred, but in many cases a lack of accountability due to weak law enforcement, a lack of trained police, and the overburdened and underresourced court system created an atmosphere of impunity.” In 2013, the Indian State employs two primary forms of oppression: First, is the legislative means of draconian laws restricting natural human liberties such as the freedoms of speech, religion, the press, assembly, privacy, and the rights to a speedy trial and habeas corpus. The Constitution of India is constructed is such a manner that it appalling permits most of these legislative means of tyranny to be conducted entirely within India’s law. Second, is the fiat means of brutal assaults on peaceful demonstrations, arbitrary arrest of impartial citizens, warrantless imprisonment of voices of dissent, banning of books, universal application of torture to detainees from every walk of life, rape of both male and female detainees, assassination of human rights activists, infiltration of peaceful and democratic political movements, and outright war. Operation Bluestar, conducted by the Indian Army from June 3-6, 1984, is the most startling example of how the Indian State employs the fiat means of war to unabashedly oppress South Asian minorities. Oppression is further encouraged by financial and other incentives for state agents and elected officials who most enthusiastically employ tyrannical measures. For instance, Congress Party MPs who led November 1984 genocide, such as Kamal Nath, Sajjan Kumar, and Jagdish Tytler, never faced charges, were all promoted to Cabinet positions, and now enjoy broad influence over national policy. After receiving over 41,000 cash bounties from the Indian State for killing Sikhs, high-ranking police officers like Sumedh Saini and Mohammad Izhar Alam were rewarded. Alam was nominated for political office in Punjab in 2011. Sumedh Saini was appointed Director of Indian police in Punjab in 2012. An identical pattern occurs in instances of oppression of other minorities. Kashmir has already been discussed. In 2000 in the State of Gujarat, Chief Minister Narendra Modi orchestrated a genocide of Muslims. Nearly 2,000 Muslims were massacred by Hindu mobs who were assisted by police under direct orders from Modi. He was reelected with a landslide later that year and still rules Gujarat. Other examples include the massacre of Muslims after the destruction of the Babri Mosque in Uttar Pradesh which was led by L. K. Advani, who later become Deputy Prime Minster of India and the slaughter of Christians in Odisha, which was encouraged and assisted by Indian police. Bhindranwale was one of the few courageous enough to stand up against the social institutionalization of tyranny that has crippled India for centuries. He symbolizes all those who have perished under the successive dictatorships of the Mughals, the British, and the Indian State. His example inspires the millions who languish under the devastating effects of the state-backed caste system to hope for deliverance. Bhindranwale represents a movement that has no borders because he stands for enslaved and oppressed peoples. The Sikh Information Centre commends the life and legacy of the reverend Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, asserts the sovereignty of the Akal Takht and the Golden Temple, which are collectively called the Harmandir Sahib complex, and demands international recognition of the Harmandir Sahib complex as possessing sovereignty in kind to the Vatican. Thus, SIC opposes the imposition of the will of any state or other political body on this religious institution. Furthermore, SIC calls for equal and universal restoration of liberty to all Indian citizens, the uninterrupted preservation of their natural human rights, and justice for the victims and perpetrators of state-sponsored genocidal actions.

“The Supreme court of India (SCI) has reportedly commuted the death penalty of Mahendra Nath Das on the grounds of delay in execution. It is notable that the SCI had refused to entertain the plea of inordinate and prolonged delay in execution as a ground of commutation of death sentence in the case of Prof. Bhullar.” Source: www.sikhsiyasat.net/2013/05/01/india-supreme-court-commutes-death-sentence-of-mn-dass-on-ground-of-delay-in-execution/ India: SCI commutes death sentence of MN Dass on ground of delay in execution By Gajinder Singh Published: May 1, 2013New Delhi, Indian (May 01, 2013): It is learnt that the Supreme Court of India (SCI), that had refused to commuted the death punishment announced by Indian courts against a Sikh political prisoner – Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, has now commuted the death sentence of another death row convict named Mahendra Nath Das to life sentence. Mahendra Nath Das’s constitutional review petition against death sentence was rejected by President of India in 2011 along with review petition of Prof. Bhullar. Mahendra Nath Das was reportedly convicted in a murder case in Assam in 1997 and was on death row since February 1998 when his death sentence was confirmed by the Gauhati High Court. The Supreme court of India (SCI) has reportedly commuted the death penalty of Mahendra Nath Das on the grounds of delay in execution. It is notable that the SCI had refused to entertain the plea of inordinate and prolonged delay in execution as a ground of commutation of death sentence in the case of Prof. Bhullar. The Sikhs had been persistently accusing the Indian system for have dual standards of law, and for being discriminatory against the Sikhs. Prof. Bhullar is facing threats of imminent execution in India. He was sentenced to death by trial court (in 2001) solely on the basis of a fractured confession extracted through torture in police custody. Prof. Bhullar’s case is the only case in India where a persons was going to be hanged despite being acquitted by the presiding judge of a three judges bench of SCI. It is notable tthat two other judges of the SCI bench had confirmed his death sentence (in 2002). It is notable that the public prosecutor who had pleaded against Prof. Bhullar in SCI has recently termed the majority judgement confirming the death sentence of Prof. Bhullar as “most inappropriate” and “judicial error”. Sikh groups have alleged that Indian state is using death penalty as a tool of political control and Prof. Bhullar was being execution for political reasons.

These are only the examples that have been in news for some time. There are countless examples of un-justness done, not only to Sikhs but also to the minority people of Assam, Manipur State, Naga-land, Tamil Nad and Kashmir state. The "collective conscience " means that what the judiciary senses as the opinion of the community of majority religion (Hindus). This opinion is propagated by the biased mainline media (Hindu newspapers such as The Tribune, The Hindustan Times and practically all the other English language Indian newspapers) . This reaches the crescendo whenever an important decision about the political cases in which the people of minority religions are involved.

From most of the decisions taken in cases involving religious minorities, be they Sikhs or Muslims, the Indian judiciary at all level, has adopted the ‘policy ‘of “ Guilty till proven innocent” rather than “ Innocent till proven guilty”. For the majority religious community (Hindus) it still is “ Innocent till guilty”. In cases where violence is involved between the members of majority religious community and members of any of the minority religious communities, the judicial decisions generally will be in favour of the members of majority communities reflecting “ Innocent even if guilty”. Such attitude of the Indian judiciary are being justified to satisfy the so called “ the collective conscience” of the community. This was clearly stated by the home ministry’s decision and the manner in which Afzal Guru was recently hanged. This principle adopted by the Indian judiciary is also reflected in awarding death sentence to Bhai Kehar Sing and very quickly executing it. This “collective conscience” is that which gets reflected by the biased mainline Indian media and the government propaganda through it. It is sad to see the attitude even in the highest courts, the High Courts and the Supreme Court.. This attitude /policy/principal adopted by the courts is being pointed-out in the video by Bhai Mandhir Singh.. Bhai Mandhir Singh is a lawyer. He is also the General Secretary of Akali Dal Panch Pardhani. The source of the following is http://www.sikhsiyasat.net/2013/04/19/decision-of-supreme-court-of-india-in-prof-davinderpal-singh-bhullars-case-and-sikhs/ ********************** Decision of Supreme Court of India in Prof. Davinderpal Singh Bhullar’s Case and Sikhs By Parmjit Singh Published: April 19, 201 Ludhiana, Punjab (April 19, 2013): Bhai Mandhir Singh, Secretary General of Akali Dal Panch Pardhani (ADPP) talked to Sikh Siyasat News regarding the April 12 (2013) decision of the Supreme Court of India upholding the death punishment of Sikh political prisoner Professor Devender Pal Singh Bhullar. He said that the decision of apex court of India signifies the political subjugation of Sikhs under unitary Indian state system. He said that by declaring the so-called “collective conscience of the community” as the basis of awarding death punishment to Prof. Bhullar, the Indian Supreme Court has affirmed that there was no legal basis for awarding the death punishment in this case and Prof. Bhullar is sentenced to death because the “collective conscience” of the majority community of India wanted it. He said that it was now clear that Sikhs were not included in the collective conscience of India because Sri Akal Takhat Sahib, representing the collective conscience of the Sikhs, had repeatedly opposed to the death penalty of Prof. Bhullar. He said that death sentence to Prof. Bhullar was part of a series of atrocities committed by India against the Sikhs.

18.04.2013 - 63 Min - Maharaja Ranjit Singh to JUNE 84 TAK - Dr. Udhoke - Vienna, Austria

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Public-prosecutor-turns-surprise-ally-for-Bhullar/articleshow/19606737.cms Public prosecutor turns surprise ally for BhullarManoj Mitta TNN | Apr 18, 2013, 04.15 AM IST NEW DELHI: Even as the home ministry is examining the Punjab government's plea to commute his death penalty, Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar has received support from an unlikely quarter: the special public prosecutor who had appeared against him in the Supreme Court in 2002. Though two of the three judges on the Supreme Court bench upheld his arguments, senior advocate Anoop G Chaudhari said that he found himself agreeing with the dissenting verdict delivered by the presiding judge, M B Shah, who had actually acquitted Bhullar. "Surprising as it may sound, I believe that Shah was right in not accepting my submissions in support of the trial court's decision to convict Bhullar in a terror case, entirely on the basis of his confessional statement to the police," Chaudhari told TOI. "Shah refused to acquiesce to the Delhi police's presumption that they had a lot of margin for shoddy investigation because of the involvement of terror." A former advocate general of Madhya Pradesh, Chaudhari also said that it was "most inappropriate" for the majority verdict, delivered by Justice Arijit Pasayat, to have awarded death sentence to Bhullar despite the acquittal by a member of the same bench. In any event, this "judicial error", he said, should have been taken by the home ministry as a "strong ground" for commuting the death penalty, when it made its recommendation to the President on Bhullar's mercy petition in 2011. "Did the home ministry think that the acquittal by a Supreme Court judge was meaningless?" Chaudhari asked. But how could he be saying all these things in Bhullar's favor, given his own role in the case? "After the judgment is delivered, I read it as a student of law and not a lawyer who appeared for one or the other party," Chaudhari said. "If I can't detach myself from the case and appreciate the judgment in its correct perspective, then I won't be honest to my profession and my conscience". One of the major infirmities in the prosecution's case pointed out by Shah was the failure of the police to find any corroboration for Bhullar's confessional statement to them, even he had retracted it. "When Shah asked me about this lacuna during the hearings, I said that I could only argue what was on record and I could not step into the shoes of the investigating agency and explain why they had not taken the trouble of finding any corroborative evidence," Chaudhari said.

Sardar Simranjit Singh Maan wrote this letter, the text of which is pasted below. The letter was written to Judge Singhvi on January 10, 2013 . It was posted on the website of Akali Dal (Amritsar) on April 16, 2013. The letter was written in response to a decision taken by Justice Singhvi on an other matter related to the Sikh victims of Delhi massacre 0f 1984. Justice Singhvi is also the judge who rejected Bhullar’s appeal. Source: http://www.akalidalamritsar.in/detail1.php?recordID=1332 Judge Singhvi of the Supreme Court whose Bench has rejected Bhullar’s appeal is a hard core, Hindu fundamentalist ultra nationalist judge April 16,2013 Simranjit Singh Mann had exposed his distorted, warped and prejudiced mind in his letter dated 10.01.2013 written to Judge Singhvi. It is worth every human rights thinker to read Mann’s analysis of this Nazi like thinker judge’s grey matter. We put out this very letter of Mann’s to Singhvi for the benefit of all scholars, jurists, thinkers and analysts: Quilla S. Harnam Singh Distt. Fatehgarh Sahib Pin Code 140406 Punjab (India) Tele Fax: 0091-1763-233764 SADA/5001/2013 10.01.2013 Dear Judge Singhvi, WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH I am writing to you about your ruling which I quote below from the Tribune dated 05 January 2013: ANTI-SIKH RIOTS SC turns down plea for relief to 200 families Legal Correspondent New Delhi, January 4 The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition of a New York-based organisation, Sikhs for Justice, pleading for rehabilitation of about 200 families in Chandigarh affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. A Bench comprising Justices GS Singhvi and Gyan Sudha Misra, however, clarified that the riot-hit families were free to seek appropriate remedy for their grievances. Arguing for the organisation, senior counsel Colin Gonsalves said these families were given Rs 3 lakh as relief and nothing more. The petition sought jobs and free ration for the victims on the lines of the rehabilitation package offered to migrant Kashmiri pandits affected by militancy in Jammu and Kashmir. “Those affected are certainly entitled to seek redress. You are a foreign body altogether as even your members are not Indians,” the Bench noted. Gonsalves said his client had taken up a number of similar cases at the international level and that was why he had agreed to appear for the organisation. During arguments, the Bench asked as to whether the organisation was involved in terrorist activities in Punjab in the 1980s. News ends. On behalf of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) I wish to state that we are ashamed that Justices of the Supreme Court GS Singhvi and Gyan Sudha Misra have asked the senior Supreme Court counsel Colin Gonsalves whether the petitioner Sikh’s for Justice is a “foreign body altogether as even your members are not Indians”. This bench further asked the petitioners counsel whether the organisation he represented “was involved in terrorist activities in Punjab in the 1980s”. We think this is a disgraceful and demeaning act of the two judges to ask such communal questions because the Sikh’s have been demanding justice since 1984 when they were subjected to the crime of genocide being perpetrated against them by the Hindu state. Such questions show the biased, prejudiced and poisonous minds of the two bigoted, right-wing Hindu judges. We state that article twenty one of the constitution states-that no person can be deprived of his life and liberty without following the procedure laid down by law. If the constitution states that “no person” it means that even a non citizen of THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State) which would mean a foreigner and even a person involved in terrorist activities can file a writ in the Supreme Court. By making this query about the legitimacy of the Sikh petitioners the two judges have changed a laid down constitutional guarantee and a full bench ruling of the Supreme Court that the basic structure of the constitution, that is, the fundamental rights enshrined in the constitution cannot be changed or altered. But the two judges in their hatred and bias against the Sikh’s have gone against the very basic structure of the constitution and that too by the full constitutional bench of the Supreme Court. In giving such a ruling the justices have also violated article 14 of the constitution, because all are equal before the law, foreigners, terrorists and the Sikh’s, though we refuse to be in such a nomenclature. We do not understand why the whole system in THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State) works against the Sikh’s. Appointing a Sikh Prime Minister or a Sikh General of the army does not mean that the crime of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated against the Sikh peoples have been addressed. If the Supreme Court could pick up the issue of the Hindu self proclaimed god man Ram Dev, suo moto, who was not allowed to hold a rally in Delhi and put the government and the police in the dock, then in 1984 when the Sikh’s were being butchered and massacred in Delhi under the very nose of the Supreme Court, then why could not the Supreme Court then or now take up this matter? When it was brought to the notice of the Supreme Court that twenty five thousand Sikh dead bodies had been cremated secretly in the Punjab, then instead of entertaining such a writ, the Supreme Court handed it over to the National Human Rights Commission which does not have the authority to probe into the excesses committed by the armed forces and the para-military forces or have any penal power, then what good would it have done to the aggrieved Sikh peoples ? Such crimes were committed all over the Punjab and Haryana and other states but NHRC confined the probe to the limits of Amritsar district alone. Till date none of the perpetrators of these ghastly crime have been put in the dock? Then 43 Sikhs were massacred in village Chithi Singh Pura of Srinagar valley by the army but the Supreme Court has failed to take cognizance so far. We are all concerned about the recent rape in Delhi and the Supreme Court is also like every rational being concerned about such an abominable crime against a twenty three year old lady. But when Hindu mobs in Delhi were raping and defiling Sikh women in 1984, and even around the premises of the Supreme Court why did the cat catch the tongue of the judges at that time and paralyse them into inaction? During that very period these very mobs with the active aid and connivance of the police were catching young Sikh boys, putting rubber tyres around their necks and setting them on fire. What happened to this exalted body then? We also ask when Director General of Police KPS. Gill was convicted by the Supreme Court for molesting and shaming a female IAS officer Ms. Rupin Deol Bajaj, why is Gill getting his pension which no convicted officer can receive under the law? At the time when Ms. Bajaj was molested by K.P.S. Gill, she sought the intervention of the then Governor of the Punjab-Sidharath Shankar Roy who was wholly the boss as Punjab was under Governors rule. Governor Roy advised Ms. Bajaj to forget the molestation as Gill was fighting the country’s war against terrorism and if he were to haul up Gill for this crime it would demoralise the police force and other agencies fighting such a war against the Sikh’s who happen to be citizens of THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State). The war against terror begun by former President Bush, we ask, when will it end? We ask the same question from both these honourable judges when will the war begun by THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State) against the so called Sikh terrorists end? President Bush began the war against terrorism against foreigners but THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State) is continuing such a war against its own people- the Sikh’s, we do not say this but it is Justices GS Singhvi and Gyan Sudha Misra who have given this ruling? We do not know when injustice against the Sikh’s will end when Supreme Court judges have their minds in knots and prejudices against the Sikh peoples? If the question of massacres of the Muslims in Gujarat could be taken up by the Supreme Court after years and years after these abominable crimes then there is no time limit why the crime of genocide perpetrated against the Sikh peoples can’t be taken up now on the principles laid down at the Nuremburg Trials or why they cannot proceed in the manner in which the International Criminal Court at the Hague is hauling up such rascals and scalawags. We do hope that better sense would prevail amongst the two judges who must apologise to the Sikh peoples and put in their resignations. The Sikh’s are not terrorists but we are the victims of terrorism of the Hindu state. Yours sincerely, Simranjit Singh Mann, President, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar). Honourable Justice G S Singhvi, Judge of the Supreme Court of India, Tilak Marg, New Delhi. This is how the Nazi’s thought about the Jews- “It is a question of mind over matter”, said the Nazi’s about the Jews, “we don’t mind and they don’t matter”. This is exactly how the new ruling Hindu class feels about the Sikh’s. The Hindu state propagates that THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State) is a democracy. But the democracy in the Hindu state lacks the two essential ingredients of a democracy, that being the rule of law and governance through the principles of natural justice. The Hindu state is composed of 86% Hindu’s whereas the Sikh’s constitute only 2% of the population. It is well nigh impossible for them to get or seek justice in a mobocracy such as THIS (Theocratic Hindu Indian State). Political scientists say that the will of the people in democracy resides in parliament. This means that parliament projects the will of the majority. When the Hindu population out matches the Sikh population by an overwhelming majority as indicated above and rule of law, principles of natural justice don’t apply, the judiciary works in tandem with the executive and the legislature would any right thinking person conclude that a Sikh could get justice? To quote the Bible half way could we state that it is easier for the camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a Sikh to get justice in the Hindu state? Web master, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar)

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Speculation-over-possible-secret-hanging-of-Bhullar-BSF-deployed-in-Punjab/articleshow/19571225.cms Speculation over possible secret hanging of Bhullar; BSF deployed in Punjab Yudhvir Rana & I P Singh | Apr 16, 2013, 04.53 AM IST AMRITSAR/JALANDHAR: With speculations rife over the "planned secret hanging" of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, whose plea for commuting death sentence into life imprisonment was recently rejected by the Supreme Court, the BSF has been deployed in Punjab on the request of the state government. Apprehending law and order problems in Punjab if Bhullar is hanged, two companies each of BSF have been deployed in Amritsar and Ludhiana and one company has been stationed near Jalandhar. BSF inspector general Aditya Mishra told TOI on Monday that they had provided five companies of BSF to the Punjab government following a request made on April 14. He, however, denied commenting on why the BSF companies have been demanded by Punjab government. Sources said the government has also told BSF to go slow on deployment in order not to create panic among residents. Reacting to the deployment of BSF, Sikh radical organization Dal Khalsa's spokesperson Kanwarpal Singh said, "I don't understand what the state government is anticipating. On the one hand chief minister P S Badal is meeting the Prime Minister for commuting death sentence of Bhullar while on the other, they are creating panic by deploying BSF." While the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has announced that it would seek presidential review of Bhullar's mercy petition, Laxmi Kanta Chawla, vice-president of its alliance partner BJP, said on Monday that the law should take its own course. "Not only the President has turned down Bhullar's mercy petition but the Supreme Court has also rejected his appeal. So let the law take its course now," said Chawla. Meanwhile, wife of Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, Navneet Kaur, who met Bhullar in a Delhi hospital on Monday, said that she also suspected that the government might hang him secretly. "Like many others, I also fear that government may hang him quietly. If that happened, it will be very cruel and inhumane," added Kaur. Meanwhile, Jalandhar police commissioner Gaurav Yadav said on Monday that the district has received one company of BSF. However, senior police officials revealed that instructions to avoid appearing in overdrive in deployment of paramilitary forces have been issued to avoid panic. "The state government doesn't want to appear over-reactive to the situation as any rumour could disturb peace in such a volatile atmosphere,' said a senior police official. However, patrolling by Punjab Police has also been increased. Police officials held that the state home department did not want to take any chance as in March last year, the state witnessed sudden and massive upsurge in protests as Beant Singh assassin Balwant Singh Rajoana's hanging was fixed, but delayed subsequently.

When in November 2012, the Censor board denied the certification, that time in several interviews, the producers did mention what the film was about . So there was no secret of what the film was about. Also Makkar as President of SGPC constituted a committee of Akalis to view the screening of the film. I understand that Several important Akalis viewed it. Also, according to Jathedar Panjoli, a special screening of the film was held in the auditorium of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib. was held for the select few Akalis. ((BBSBEC is run by SPGC). It was done in December 2012. It was after the report from these viewers that Makkar gave the recommendation. It is highly unlikely that the General Secretary of DGMC would not have come to know why the President of SGPC has recommended the film. In Feruary 2013 when the film received the clearance, it was openly talked about in news what the film was about . Makkar was gloating in pleasure that he gave the recommendation. Other Akalis also wanted to be included in the pictures being taken. It is very unlikely that Sirsa Sahib would not have known what glory Makkar and other Akalis are basking in. In February it became an open secret and almost every body knew what the film was about (except Parkash Singh Badal, of course). Where does the PunjabSpectrum website say that it is more recent video? I could not see that on their website. If member GPS has contacted someone at Punjab Spectrum to find out when the video was recorded, can he share with us whom he contacted at the Punjab Spectrum? Member GPS seem to have great respect for Sirsa Sahib.. This has become quite evident by his endavour to prove that what Sirsa Sahib has said in the video is post April 5, 2013 material. Good on him. I respect his views and I appreciate his commenting on what I posted. Good luck and best wishes to him.

Initially the film was denied the certification by both the Censor Board and the Censor Board Review Committee However, the CBCF gave the clearance to the film only after a favourable decision was given by the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal . (Makkar sent his recommendation at some level). After the hearing the, Appellate Tribunal recommended to the Censor Board (CBFC ) that the film be cleared with “U” certification. So the Censor Board complied, removed the previous refusal, and issued the certification to the film. This happened about the first week of the February. When the Censor Board issued the certification, Makkar made a big deal of his having given the recommendation and went on to take credit of how he helped in getting the film cleared by the Censor Board. Then he went on to give Siropa to the producers and the director of the film. The pictures of that appeared ion pages of newspapers. It seems that Sirsa Sahib did not want to miss the opportunity either. . The video concerned seemed to have been shot during those days. If the video was posted on You tube on April 11, 2013, that does not mean that it was shot after April 5, 2013. The video seem to have been shot weeks before April 5,. He clearly is praising SGPC and Makkar for their role where as after April 5 Makkar had started to say that he made a big mistake. Nobody knew much about this picture before the ban was clamped ? Film has been in news for about 6 months. It was denied the certification (second time) by the Censor Board Review Committee sometime at the end of November 2012. SGPC gave the recommendation in December 2012. The film received the certification after a long struggle on (or about) February 2, 2013. In February Producers started to book the cinema Halls for showing the film for release on April 5 2013. They started to promote the film. Videos of some songs promoting the film were put on U Tube. After seeing the promotional songs Shiv Sena stared its campaign against it .It would be sometime in March. Later BJP and some Congress leaders ( especially the congress MP Bittu) joined the campaign to have it banned before it was to be released. When the picture was finally cleared by the Censor board on / about February 2, 2013 the " ih picture sikhan te jiadtian ujagar kardi si -----------------" was the main topic in news and on some news channels. Video being posted on You tube on April 11, 2013, that does not mean that it could not have been shot before April 5, 2013 - perhaps a month or so before April 5, 2013.

Source:: http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-PunjabSectionPage-PunjabBlogs/1984-riots-crime-sans-punishment/Article1-1043625.aspx 1984 riots: crime sans punishment Lt Gen Harwant Singh (retd), Hindustan Times April, 13, 2013 As we await Jagdish Tytler's tryst with trial, a rewind to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots becomes essential. If you were in Delhi on November 1, 1984, and climbed atop a tall building, thousands of columns of smoke could be seen rising all over the city. You would have thought that perhaps Nadir Shah was on his second visit to Delhi. As Nadir Shah's army entered Delhi, some of his soldiers went around looting property and molesting women. A few spirited citizens killed one such offender of women. That was a great affront to the conqueror and the citizens of Delhi had to be punished. Nadir Shah unsheathed his sword and gave his army the freedom to loot, burn property, commit murder and rape, till he put his sword back in the scabbard. His troops carried out this task with military precision. He finally sheathed his sword after three days. Two misguided Sikh guards broke trust and committed the abominable act of shooting the Prime Minister. So the entire Sikh community had to be taught a lesson. What Nadir Shah did to citizens of Delhi in the opening decade of the 18th century, was repeated in the penultimate decade of the 20th century, but this time only the city's Sikh population was punished. For three full days, rampaging mobs went about their business, with the government of India, most shamefully, having gone into hiding. Were the government and law-enforcing agencies quarantined during those three days? Such an edifice of law and order machinery could not have collapsed all by itself! Who, like Nadir Shah, had given the signal that Sikhs must be taught a lesson, which led to looting, murder and burning alive of Sikhs of Delhi, torching their gurdwaras, till the time Indira Gandhi's body lay in state: a coincidental period of three days. Who organised these mobs and gave the assurance that hunting Sikhs was fair game and no one would be held accountable? The union government, during those three days, was not comatose, but actively involved in keeping the police in check and preventing them from performing their mandated duty enjoined by law. Later, the home ministry, most shamefully, prepared a "dressed up" action-taken report (ATR) on the Nanavati Commission of Inquiry. Even though the army was called, albeit late, the mayhem and pogrom continued unabated for the next two days, when restoring order by the military was possible in a matter of four to six hours. Firm action at one or two places would have made the mobs, all over Delhi, run for cover. RD Mehra, who was part of the brigade moved from Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), in a letter to the Hindustan Times editor, wrote that it was the Lt-Governor's office which instructed the brigade second-in command to withdraw 15 Sikh Light Infantry battalion from the duty of controlling the mobs and move it to the Delhi Cantonment, where it was put on administrative duties for the brigade. Who wanted this unit, which was feared would act against the rioters, withdrawn from the task for which it was called from Meerut? What was the order for the rest of the army? Many of the lower-rung police functionaries actively encouraged the mobs and in some cases even led them, while those in the higher echelons turned a Nelson's eye to happenings in their areas. Finally, all such police personnel and politicians were rewarded with promotions and ministerial berths. No one from hundreds of respectable citizens of Delhi, who were witness to the pogrom and saw small-time Congress leaders instigating and leading the mobs in arson and killing, came forward to give evidence. Nine commissions and almost 29 years later, we are nowhere the truth, because truth is too bitter and unpalatable and the guilty cannot be brought to book because it tarnishes a political party's image. More than 3,000 Sikhs were killed, but only six persons have been punished. Thousands of these murderers and rapists have been freely roaming the streets of Delhi. What contribution did they make to the city's crime graph and earning it the epithet of India's rape capital? The reason for the pestilence of communal riots periodically visiting the nation is the knowledge and belief that no one will be held accountable for the pogrom and that the support of the government of the day will be at hand.

This interview seemed to have been recorded before the April 5, 2013 ban on the film. These comments seemed to have been made at the time when the picture was finally cleared for viewing with ‘U’ certificate by the Censor Board . Now that Badal has imposed the ban on the movie, what is Mr. Sirsa’s opinion now? And what is the opinion of SGPC now? (Mr. Sirsa appears to be praising the SGPC in the interview for helping the producers with the Censor Board. Is he not aware of that Mr. Makkar said it was a mistake, and that he is never going to repeat that again )

According to some reports, Baba Baljeet Singh Dadduwal was arrested yesterday. Don’t know on what charges. However the back ground of the situation is this. For many years Baba Baljeet Singh and his group have been doing langer seva and holding a diwan/parcharchar in Talwandi Sabo (Takht DamDama Sahib) on Vaisakhi day. The area around Takht Damdama Sahib where smagams or conferences are held is under the SGPC management. And the SGPC make the allotment of venue for any celebration or event that may take place in that area. This year the SGPC refused to give him any space to do that. But, instead SGPC has deployed its task force to prevent him from doing any thing of that sort. I think the arrest might be related to this.