Ihro Deplores The Murder Of A Sikh At Mumbai By Sirsa Cult Leader

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International Human Rights Organisation

Of the Indian Subcontinent

210, New Judicial Courts Complex, Ludhiana

PRESS RELEASE

Ludhiana, June 25

The International Human Rights Organisation (IHRO), while rebuking the Central and state governments, including Punjab, for their inaction against Dera Sirsa head, Baba Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh, has asked Maharashtra government to book the "baba" in the Mumbai Sikh murder case under section 120-B of the IPC along with others.

The murder of Balkar Singh at the hands of the baba and his private body guards at Mumbai is the result of inaction, nay, clandestine encouragement rendered by the UPA government at the Centre and Congress government in Haryana that has caused panic and provoked the wrath of the Sikh community against the alleged murderer and rapist baba who too is facing criminal charges for injuring religious feelings of the Sikhs in Punjab at Bathinda.

IHRO chairperson D S Gill, general secretary M S Grewal and its coordinator for Sikh Affairs, Gurcharanjit Singh Lama, in a statement here, said, "If the outlaw baba is not bridled forthwith and put behind the bars, there may repeat the era of 1978 of Nirankaris episode that had ultimately culminated into the bad incidents of 1984 in Punjab and elsewhere in India."

It is unfortunate that many politicians in Punjab and Haryana are protecting the criminal baba just for votes and notes, considering him as their vote mine, said the human rights defenders, adding that Badals who matter in Punjab politics are no exception and they are very well competing with the Congress leaders in this regard.

It is anybody's guess that Sukhbir Badal is keen in contesting from Bathinda's Parliamentary constituency, said the IHRO statement.

It is because of these reasons, the IHRO said, that no criminal charge-sheet against the Sirsa baba under section 295-A has so far been filed in the court of law at Bathinda.

The IHRO, therefore, has called upon the people, who have respect for the rule of law and human rights, to pressure on the Maharashtra government to book the baba along with other guilty persons for the murder so that the Sikhs could get justice.

(D S Gill)

Chair IHRO

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