Tension At District Courts As Nihang Factions Gather

[Azaad]

Tension brewed at the district courts here today after a number of Nihangs belonging to two rival factions of the Budha Dal assembled to attend the legal proceedings of a murder case.

The complainant group belonged to Baba Balbir Singh, chief of the Budha Dal, while the group that came in support of some of the accused in the case was of their rival faction-Surjeet Singh group. The rivalry among the groups was for the coronet as both had claimed their right of being the chief of the Dal.

Sensing the risk of a clash between the groups, the district administration cordoned off the courts complex and prevented the entry of the Surjeet group.

After they lodged resentment with the cops deputed to check their entry, they were allowed to meet the accused in Bakshikhana (lock-up) one by one. The proceeding was related to evidence of two eye-witnesses in the murder case of Nihang Balwinder Singh (25), who was killed in broad daylight at Talwandi Sabo on June, 23, 2008. He was said to be close to Balbir Singh, chief of the Budha Dal.

The case was in the court of the Additional District and Sessions Judge, Manju Rana. Though both eye-witnesses, Sikander Singh and Paramjit Singh, were present in the court, their statements could not be recorded as one of the seven identified accused did not appear in the court.

Sources in the court said one of the accused, Baljeet Singh, alias Kala, was lodged in the Amritsar jail for some other crime. Due to some undisclosed reason, the jail staff could not bring him to attend the hearing, which led the judge to adjourn the case for August 3.

The six accused, who were brought from the Central Jail Bathinda, were, namely, Kuldeep Singh, Mandeep Soni, Karamjeet Singh, Harbant Singh, Sukhbir Singh Mitha and Jafarjang Singh. The group of Nihangs, who were kept outside the courts, had come to show their support for Sukhbir Singh Mitha, district Jathedar (Sangrur) of the Surjeet Singh faction.

Speaking to the media, the Surjeet Singh group alleged false implication of three of their Nihangs, while the Balbir group accused them of killing their Nihang due to an old rivalry for the coronet.

[SargentArmpits]

Typical nihangs fighting amongst them selves as usual over nothing……and they are supposed to be the great warriors and protectors of the sikh panth - they get told and put in their place by the punjaab police.

[Southall Youth]

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[Babbar Khalsa 1984]

WARRIORS??? LOL ....YEAH RIGHT!!!...I MET AND SPOKE TO TWO KHARKOOS ABOUT THE NIHANGS....AND THEY TOLD ME THEY KILLED MORE SO CALLED NIHANGS THEN THEY DID POLICEMEN LOL...the puraatan nihangs were heroes of the panth and i look up to them..but todays nihangs are a joke...they are no longer the laadlia fauja of guru gobind singh ji maharaj...i think the kharkoo jathebandis have replaced them !