19 hours ago, dallysingh101 said:

I have to add. I am truly perplexed as to why they didn't historically convert to Sikh???

This is one of the most interesting questions/statements I've seen here recently.

Hindus and Sikhs have a lot of overlap in Panjab in terms of religious practices (not saying it's a good thing if you are Sikh and doing Pooja and following Hindu festivals etc but it's reality) and culture. Much more than with the Muslims in Panjab. 

@proactive might have answers. 

I think this applies more to Brahmins and (Hindu) Khatris especially who have the strongest Hindu identities in Panjabi Hindus ?

5 minutes ago, 5aaban said:

So Panjabis/Sikhs indirectly made them a profit which simultaneously ruined our community with bad music and propaganda films. 

Yes, and some of their music would have been on in nightclubs etc where Sikh girls were groomed

12 minutes ago, 5aaban said:

Music labels have done a lot of harms to Sikhs. Isn't one of the most popular music label for Panjabi music (especially in the UK) owned by British-Pakistanis? Moviebox or something. 

Almost every popular Panjabi singer had released a song on there and it was really popular amongst Panjabis just a decade back. The same label also promotes movies showing Sikh female, Muslim male relationships with Sikhs in negative light. 

 

I don't think it's likely anything personal against Sikhs with Moviebox, but Pakistanis in Pakistan can be like this and show Sikhs in a negative way. The laugh is on them really (I'll say no more, but there are plenty of reasons to laugh at Pakistanis)

Btw, when I say it's 'not personal', this is one reason why. I think Sukhshinder Shinda has his own record company now

https://www.change.org/p/zafar-iqbal-khan-ban-fake-company-moviebox-from-youtube-it-is-finishing-pakistani-music-movies-channels

On 2/3/2022 at 10:02 AM, 5aaban said:

Music labels have done a lot of harms to Sikhs. Isn't one of the most popular music label for Panjabi music (especially in the UK) owned by British-Pakistanis? Moviebox or something. 

Almost every popular Panjabi singer had released a song on there and it was really popular amongst Panjabis just a decade back. The same label also promotes movies showing Sikh female, Muslim male relationships with Sikhs in negative light. 

 

Give a related example to this thread

When I went India a few years ago, I ate from a Dominos Pizza whilst doing yatri of a Gurdwara outside Panjab, and I also ate (shamefully I feel now) in the McDonalds of Harmandir Sahib complex

I got food poisoning both times within a couple of days

Even in England, I have more than once got food poisoning eating out . I eat out very rarely now

12 hours ago, GurjantGnostic said:

See HG's vid fuel crisis. Apllies to destruction's question. I doubt they will return to read it. 

What does 'HG' say ?

I haven't watched any of his videos (sorry)

Bumping this up

Most of the music labels are owned by city types who mostly are Hindu or atheist types. 

I think TV, radio/electronic media and internet has done more harm than good for Sikhs and Panjab generally in popularising  music.

When my Mum was growing up in 60's/70's, it was seen as shameful for girls to go see music, she sneaked out with friends to see Mohammed Siddique perform.  Not saying rules should be different for boys and girls, but an example of how attitudes have generally changed

10 hours ago, 5aaban said:

We should have some sort of movement where we boycott this music and support clean lyrics/videos as a community. Don't think it will catch on since many of our people consume this music and singers use fake views to get into trending pages. 

These Panjabi singers indirectly pay females to dance/make reels on their songs so they get popular. 

Being very blunt, but better than that, we need to popularise Bani and Naam Jap and try to make listening to 'music' more 'shameful'. This will take a cultural shift, and I think Sant Jarnail Singh ji was quite against music and kalakaars? I know from an anecdote of a Mahapursh around 30 years ago, that Sangat asked them about geet-sangeet and the Mahapursh's answer was 'othe ki hai ? Othe hanerha hai (what's there where those who sing? It's darkness)

Really , everything else is 'kachi bani'

Even if music is 'made cleaner' it will still go the other way again eventually sooner or later. Why are these singers, some of whom have very good voices singing songs rather than Bani in the first place? There's plenty of scope for these singers to be singing different types of Bani just as there are different 'music' styles. And some of these singers actually learned Keertan in Gurdware growing up

@dallysingh101 or @shastarSingh or anyone else who has good Itihaas knowledge, are there any examples of Sakhis or Bani that our Gurus or Puratan Sikhs gave to show their attitude towards 'kachi bani' ?

https://theprint.in/politics/beyond-badals-and-amarinder-four-political-families-look-to-regain-lost-glory-in-punjab/816260/

 

 

 

 

 

(Clockwise from top left) Beant Singh, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, Gurkirat Kotli, Kanwarveer Singh Tohra, Sandeep Jakhar, Adaish Pratap Singh Kairon, Balram Jakhar & Partap Singh Kairon | Illustration: Ramandeep Kaur | ThePrint

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Chandigarh: The Punjab assembly elections on 20 February will decide the electoral fortunes not only of the state’s two most prominent families — the Badals and the dynasty of Captain Amarinder Singh, former Maharajas of Patiala — but also of the heirs of those fading clans who once dominated the state’s political space.

The kin of half a dozen former chief ministers of Punjab, and of former top Sikh leaders and leading politicians, are in the fray in these elections. ThePrint profiles four such leaders, and the legacies they seek to uphold or reclaim. 

Adaish Pratap Singh Kairon

Senior Akali leader Adaish Pratap Singh Kairon (62), who is contesting from the Patti seat in the Majha region, is the grandson of former Congress chief minister Partap Singh Kairon — considered one of the most eminent leaders of post-partition Punjab.

The elder Kairon began his career as a leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) before joining the Congress in 1941. Following Partition, he was responsible as rehabilitation minister for managing the huge influx of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan into Punjab, and helping them settle down.

He served as chief minister of Punjab for eight years (1956-1964), before Haryana was carved out of the state in 1966. He is credited with building several modern-day institutions in Punjab and Haryana. However, his family faced allegations of corruption, and although an inquiry exonerated him of the major charges, he resigned as chief minister in 1964. He was assassinated in what’s now Haryana the following year, while he was on his way from Delhi to Chandigarh. The assassins, who had a personal grudge against Kairon, were hanged in 1969.

Kairon’s two sons, Surinder Singh and Gurinder Singh, also entered politics, with Surinder serving as both an MLA and an MP. However, while Gurinder remained in the Congress, Surinder joined the SAD and married his son Adaish to Akali Dal patron Parkash Singh Badal’s daughter, Praneet Kaur.

Adaish, an engineer who did his MBA in the US, is a four-time MLA from Patti. He served as food and civil supplies minister in the Badal government from 2012 to 2017. In the upcoming polls, he faces his old opponent, Harminder Singh Gill of the Congress, who defeated him in Patti in 2017.  

 

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Kanwarveer Singh Tohra

Kanwarveer Singh Tohra is the grandson of Akali stalwart Gurcharan Singh Tohra, who was known as the ‘Pope of the Sikhs’. Kanwarveer  joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 11 January with his wife.  He is the son of Kuldeep Kaur — Gurcharan Singh Tohra’s adopted daughter — and former Akali minister Harmail Singh. Kanwarveer is now the BJP’s candidate in the Amloh constituency. 

A major figure in Sikh politics, Tohra developed his own rebellious path within the Akali Dal and earned the sobriquet of “forever dissenter”. He served for a record 27 years as president of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the body that controls all historical Sikh shrines.  

Considered to be a hardliner, Tohra was seen as soft on Sikh militant groups led by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. He was president of the SGPC during Operation Blue Star, the 1984 military operation to flush out militants from the Golden Temple.

Tohra dabbled in electoral politics and was elected to the Rajya Sabha multiple times, although his mainstay remained Sikh religious affairs. His son-in-law, Harmail Singh, won from the Dakala constituency in the 1997 assembly elections and became a minister in Badal’s cabinet.

Badal and Tohra had a falling out in 1998, which led to the former having the latter removed as SGPC president and expelling him from the SAD. Harmail also resigned from Badal’s cabinet. 

Tohra then formed his own party, the Sarv Hind Shiromani Akali Dal. But when both his party and the SAD were defeated in the 2002 assembly elections, Badal and Tohra reconciled and the two parties merged in 2003. Tohra died of a heart attack in 2004.

Harmail unsuccessfully contested the 2002 and 2007 assembly elections from Dakala on an Akali ticket. Meanwhile, Kuldeep Kaur was elected as a member of the SGPC, a post she continues to hold. Their elder son, Harinder Pal, became senior vice president of the Youth Akali Dal.

Kuldeep contested as an SAD candidate in the Patiala Rural constituency in the 2012 assembly elections, but was defeated. The family then joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the 2017 polls, in which Kuldeep contested from the Sanour seat but lost. The family returned to the Akali fold ahead of the 2019 parliamentary polls, but Kanwarveer joined the BJP in January. 

Kanwarveer, an engineer and MBA graduate, will be contesting elections for the first time.

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Gurkirat Kotli

Gurkirat Kotli (49), the sitting Congress MLA from Khanna, who is fighting to retain his seat, is the grandson of former chief minister Beant Singh.

Beant Singh entered politics after a brief stint in the Army, and rose from the ranks of the Congress to finally reach the top in 1992, when he took over as chief minister. 

Credited with ending decades of militancy in Punjab, Beant Singh paid the price with his own life. He was assassinated by Sikh militants using a human bomb in 1995.

Beant Singh’s eldest son, Tej Prakash, was inducted into the cabinet by the next chief minister, Harcharan Singh Brar, and won from the family seat of Payal several times. But it was his younger son, Swaranjit, who Beant Singh had groomed for politics. However, Swaranjit had died in a car accident in 1985. 

Swaranjit’s son, Ravneet Bittu, was chosen by Rahul Gandhi to contest the parliamentary constituency of Anandpur Sahib in 2009, which he won. He went on to win the Ludhiana Lok Sabha seat in 2014 and 2019. 

Beant Singh’s youngest child, Gurkanwal Kaur, also entered active politics and won the Jalandhar Cantonment seat in 2002. She was a minister in Capt Amarinder’s cabinet during his first term as CM (2002-2007), but was defeated in the 2007 elections.

After 2008, the family’s traditional seat of Payal was converted into a reserved constituency. Tej Prakash’s son, Gurkirat Kotli, contested from Khanna and won as a Congress candidate in 2012 and 2017. Kotli is the name of the village near Payal where Beant Singh’s family settled after Partition.

After the Congress removed Capt Amarinder Singh as chief minister in September last year, Kotli was included in Charanjit Singh Channi’s new cabinet, despite some opposition from within the party due to Kotli’s controversial past. 

Kotli was accused of raping and molesting a French tourist who had visited Punjab in 1994. The charge came to haunt him again last year when the National Commission for Women sought a report on the case from the Punjab government.

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Sandeep Jakhar

42-year-old Sandeep Jakhar, is the youngest member of one of the most prominent Hindu Jat political families in Punjab. Grandson of Balram Jakhar, the eminent farmer leader from Rajasthan who made Punjab his home, Sandeep is contesting as Congress candidate from the family’s pocket borough of Abohar.

Balram Jakhar, a Sanskrit scholar, was mentored by Swami Keshwanand, a social reformer. Jakhar joined the Congress and was first elected to the Punjab assembly in 1972 from Abohar, going on to become a deputy minister. He won the seat again in 1977. Parkash Singh Badal took over as chief minister for the second time that year, and Jakhar was chosen as leader of the opposition. 

An Indira Gandhi loyalist, Jakhar moved to central politics in 1980 as Lok Sabha MP from Ferozepur, and from 1984 to 1989 and 1991 to 1996 from Sikar in Rajasthan. He remains the longest-serving speaker of the Lok Sabha, from 1980 to 1989.

In 1991, he was inducted into the P.V. Narasimha Rao cabinet as agriculture minister. He was elected to the Lok Sabha again from Bikaner in 1998, and served for a year. He was governor of Madhya Pradesh from 2004 to 2009, and died in 2016.

The year Jakhar shifted his focus to central politics, his eldest son, Sajjan, entered active politics in Punjab. Sajjan first became MLA from Abohar in 1980, but lost the seat to BJP in 1985. He wrested it back in 1992, but was defeated in 1997. He also served as the state’s agriculture minister.

Sajjan’s son, Ajay Vir, an agriculturist, heads the Bharat Krishak Samaj, a farmers’ forum. He was chairperson of the Punjab State Farmers’ & Farm Workers’ Commission till last year, but resigned “due to changed circumstances in the state” after Captain Amarinder was removed, and his uncle, Sunil Jakhar, was overlooked for the chief minister’s post.

Balram Jakhar’s youngest son Sunil won the Abohar seat three times consecutively from 2002 to 2012. He served as leader of the opposition from 2012 to 2017. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Gurdaspur in a 2017 bypoll, and also headed the state Congress until last year, when he was replaced by Navjot Singh Sidhu. He was tipped to be chief minister after Amarinder’s removal, but it wasn’t to be.

Jakhar’s middle son, Surinder, was involved in the cooperative movement. He served as chairman of Asia’s cooperative fertiliser giant, IFFCO, for multiple terms. Surinder was killed while cleaning his gun at his farmhouse in 2011. 

Surinder’s son, Sandeep, was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer and later in Florida. He worked in the US for 10 years before returning to Punjab to enter politics.

(Edited by Rohan Manoj)

Posting this as it is very relevant for the Sikh community

I have no idea what will happen, but Congress have won most elections. AAP are becoming strong in India.

@proactive @5aaban @shastarSingh @Punjabiwolvesand anyone else who knows about the political scene in Panjab, please give your opinions on what will/could happen ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Punjab_Legislative_Assembly_election#Background_and_overview

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2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election

← 2017 20 February 2022
All 117 seats in the Punjab Legislative Assembly 59 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Leader Charanjit Singh Channi Bhagwant Singh Maan Sukhbir Singh Badal Party INC AAP SAD Alliance UPA - SAD+ Leader since 2021 2017 2019 Leader's seat Chamkaur Sahib Dhuri[b] Jalalabad[a] Last election 38.50%, 77 seats 23.72%, 20 seats 25.24%, 15 seats Current seats 79 12 13   Leader Ashwani Kumar Sharma Simarjit Singh Bains Party BJP LIP Alliance NDA - Leader since 2020 2016 Leader's seat Pathankot Atam Nagar Last election 5.39%, 3 seats 1.22%, 2 seats Current seats 5 2
Assembly Constituencies of Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi INC

The 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Punjab on 20 February 2022 to elect the 117 members of the 16th Assembly of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 10 March 2022.

Election schedule

The election schedule was announced by the Election Commission of India on 8 January 2022.^[21] However, the election date was postponed from 14 February 2022 to 20 February 2022 on account of Guru Ravidass Jayanti.^[22]

Parties and alliances

  United Progressive Alliance

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested	Male candidates	Female candidates
1.	Indian National Congress			Charanjit Singh Channi		117[c]	107	9

  Aam Aadmi Party

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested	Male candidates	Female candidates
1.	Aam Aadmi Party			Bhagwant Mann		117[23]	104	13

  Shiromani Akali Dal+

 

Seats distribution between SAD and BSP

No.	Party[19]	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested[19]	Male candidates	Female candidates
1.	Shiromani Akali Dal			Sukhbir Singh Badal		97	93	4
2.	Bahujan Samaj Party			Jasvir Singh Garhi		20	19	1
Total						117	112	5

  National Democratic Alliance

 

Seats distribution between BJP, PLC and SAD(S).

No.	Party[24]	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested[25]	Male candidates	Female candidates
1.	Bharatiya Janata Party			Ashwani Kumar Sharma		66	61	5
2.	Punjab Lok Congress			Captain Amarinder Singh		36	34	2
3.	Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt)			Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa		15	14	1
Total						117	108	8

  Sanyukt Samaj Morcha+

 

Seats distribution between SSM and SSP.

No.	Party[26][27]	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested[28]	Male candidates	Female candidates
1.	Sanyukt Samaj Morcha contesting as Independents[29]			Balbir Singh Rajewal		TBD	TBD	TBD
2.	Sanyukt Sangharsh Party			Gurnam Singh Charuni		10	10	0
3.	Communist Party of India			Bant Singh Brar		TBD	TBD	TBD
Total						TBD	TBD	0

Others

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Photo	Seats contested	Male candidates	Female candidates
1.	Lok Insaaf Party			Simarjit Singh Bains		34[30][31]	34	0
2.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			Sukhwinder Singh Sekhon		14	TBD	TBD
3.	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation			Sukhdarshan Singh Natt		11[32]	TBD	TBD

Candidates

AAP CM candidate Bhagwant Mann is contesting from the Dhuri.^[33]

Congress leader and CM Charanjit Singh Channi is contesting from Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur, and former CM Rajinder Kaur Bhattal is contesting from Lehragaga from INC.^[34]

Former CM, Prakash Singh Badal, member of Shiromani Akali Dal, is contesting from Lambi. While SAD-BSP alliance’s CM candidate Sukhbir Singh Badal is contesting from Jalalabad. Former CM, Amarinder Singh, member of Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) is contesting from Patiala Urban.^[35]

2 hours ago, Punjabiwolves said:

Like i said I am not really a religious person in the traditional sense . Russell Brand has similar viewpoint aswell  

10 minutes ago, GurjantGnostic said:

Fair enough. Love me some Russel Brand. Love you too bro. We don't have to agree when you're being you. But guaranteed your particular views won't always be compatible with Gurmat. 

1 hour ago, proactive said:

His family are the stragglers, instead of coming to Sikhi like 99.99% of the Jathera and Sakhi Sarwar worshipping Jats did his family became  Arya Samajis. There are a few of them in Ferozepur and Hoshiarpur. In Ludhiana in 1931 there were 3500 of these Jathera and Sakhi Sarwar worshipping Jats but now you will not see a single non-Sikh Jat in Ludhiana district. The British only counted the caste numbers up until 1931 and the 1941 war census was pretty basic. If they can collected caste data in 1941 as they did in 1931 then the Jat Sikh population would have shown another increase and the 'Hindu' Jats would have shown another decrease. 

interesting...how aware are these Hindu Jats of their history and do they secretly or openly not like Sikhs, or do they get on ?

On 7/30/2020 at 6:41 PM, Kau89r8 said:

Last few days there's been alot of awareness for Jaggi in social media and even USA republicans senators have shown support. Its been 1000 days now.

What do you think will happen to him? Had he not been 'British' no doubt he would have been killed by now. 

Either they will Kill him,  rule it as 'suicide', or let him go if British gov put pressure on them ...if they let him go, wont do much damage to India, or bring 'Justice' to Sikhs,  change anything etc..because we are powerless, dont have the Sikh Raaj and have little interests in West for them to care . We are not like Muslims, who have Gulf states Jews etc...

What are your thoughts what will happen to him? 

On 7/31/2020 at 12:53 AM, Kaurr said:

Honestly, god help him. But he needs as much support as he can get. About time people see the sh1t indian gov does

@Kau89r8 you've not said much since starting this thread....

@dallysingh101 

https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/sikhs-in-the-city-platinum-jubilee-run-8616192

Running club organises event to mark Queen's Platinum Jubilee

At uni, there was a Chahal who said his family were from Delhi and they were Buddhist

Sunil Jakhar is from Hindu Jatt family 

Sunil Kumar Jakhar is a Politician belonging to very powerful Jat family from Panjkosiin Punjab

Family

Sunil is son of Bal Ram Jakhar, grand son of Zaildar Raja Ram Jakhar from village Panjkosi, Abohar district Fazilka in Punjab. His brother Sajjan Jakhar was many times MLA from Abohar Vidhan Sabha and agriculture minister of Punjab in 1992. Another brother Surinder Kumar Jakhar was many times Chairman of Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).

https://www.dawn.com/news/1672027/hitman-in-blogger-ahmad-waqass-goraya-murder-plot-found-guilty-by-uk-court

‘Hitman’ in blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya murder plot found guilty by UK court

LONDON: Muhammad Gohir Khan, the 31-year-old British Pakistani man at the centre of a trial involving the plot to slay a dissident blogger in the Netherlands, was found guilty on Friday on one count of conspiracy to murder.

The jury gave its verdict to the Kingston-upon-Thames crown court after deliberating for two days.

Justice Hilliard had earlier directed the jury to return when a majority verdict was reached.

Mr Khan is to be sentenced on March 11 at a criminal court.

The trial, which spanned about two weeks, starting on Jan 11, featured chilling accounts from the prosecution of how Mr Khan was approached in early 2021 and paid by a Pakistan-based man identified as Muzamil for a ‘job’.

Later, it was communicated that the job was a contract to kill Ahmad Waqass Goraya, a dissident blogger who left Pakistan to live in exile in Rotterdam. The court heard how Mr Khan was paid £5,000 as advance via hundi, with the primary payment made into a Pakistani bank account by Muzamil. The agreement was that Mr Khan would be paid the remainder, £80,000, when the job was done.

Whatsapp and Signal message exchanges submitted as evidence during the trial revealed how the two men spoke of the hit in code words, using fishing metaphors and describing the blogger as ‘tuna not shark’ who would ‘not require fishing tools’.

Upon receiving the advance payment, Mr Khan flew to Amsterdam with a bogus letter of reference only to be denied entry due to stringent pandemic rules. Mr Khan then made a second attempt and was successful in travelling to Rotterdam via Paris after taking the Eurostar. There, Mr Khan stayed at a hotel, rented a car and made reconnaissance trips to the address of the target as provided by Muzamil. He also purchased a knife, which the prosecution said was the intended murder weapon.

Mr Khan was arrested upon his return to London at the St Pancras station, and in subsequent interviews with the police gave up his devices and shared details of the plot.

Mr Khan accepted during the cross-examination that the communications with Muzamil and the plot to murder the blogger were legitimate, but denied ever intending to murder Mr Goraya. He maintained he wanted to get money out of Muzamil, to settle an old loss incurred when Muzamil worked for the defendant’s cargo company.

During the trial, voice messages exchanged between Mr Khan and Muzamil showed that the middleman had referred to future jobs and contracts if the Goraya hit was successful. He bragged that Mr Khan could earn £20,000 - £30,000 ‘per job’.

Talking to Dawn, Mr Goraya said he was “a bit relieved” that the hitman sent to target him had been arrested and would be punished.

“But those who ordered, financed and organised the hit are still at large.”

Mr Goraya has not returned to Pakistan since 2017, the year he was abducted in the capital. That year, he and his family went into self-imposed exile in the Netherlands, citing security fears and threats.

He said that on Feb 12, 2021, the Dutch police informed him that he should move from his home as they believed his life was in danger.

“Earlier that evening, the Dutch police had been informed by the Italian police of the arrest of an Egyptian in a similar plot against me,” Mr Goraya said, alleging that there were multiple schemes to target him.

In Pakistan, where the middleman Muzamil is said to be based, there has largely been silence from authorities around the trial.

When asked if Scotland Yard is working on any leads to nab Muzamil or his “boss’ — who is mentioned in the messages but never identified — the London police said they do not comment on ongoing trials.

Published in Dawn, January 29th, 2022

https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/disgraced-met-officer-avoids-jail-22935311

Shareen Kashif's role was uncovered after the police deciphered an Encrochat message chain

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A former Met Police officer has avoided jail for hiding a ‘shoebox full of cash’ from her corrupt copper husband whilst their house was being raided by the police. Shareen Kashif, 30, was also aware that her partner PC Kashif Mahmood was part of an organised crime group and had pretended to stop and search drug dealers as a ploy to steal their money.

He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in May 2021 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to acquire criminal property and misconduct in a public office. Appearing today at Southwark Crown Court, Ms Kashif, who was formerly Central East Command Unit, received a 21 month suspended sentence for successfully hiding an unknown sum of money from the police.

The court heard that on April 28, 2020, police had appeared at the couple’s home in Harlow, Essex, at 2.40am with a search warrant. Whilst in uniform and marked police cars, Mahmood had been stopping known drug couriers under the pretence of issuing stop and search warrants.

It was also noted that Ms Kashif had been a serving Met Police officer at the time, and had previously conducted a number of property search warrants, and would have been aware of the process when hiding the box.

Describing it as a “momentary act”, her defence lawyer Allan Compton QC said: “She was acting under the direction of her husband, it was at his request that she hid the box.”

Whilst acknowledging that she may have acted “spontaneously”, Judge Tomlinson rejected that she was completely in the dark and said that she had “more than limited awareness”.

In his sentencing remarks, he said: “The essence of it, is that just as your husband knew it was only a matter of time before the police came knocking at the door, so were you. In fact you were very angry with him for what he had been up to.

“The sum of money is unknown. As it was the size of the shoebox, I agree with the prosecution that it could not have been less than £10,000 and no more than £100,000.”

He said that whilst her role had a “limited function”, he rejected the assumption that she was not influenced by personal gain.