Help Prosecute Sumedh Saini

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

HELP PROSECUTE SUMEDH SAINI

In February 1992 Balwant Singh Bhullar and Manjit Singh Sohi the father and uncle of Professor Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar were tortured and brutally killed by Sumedh Saini. Gurdwaras and organisations are urged to download the letter below circulated by the Sikh Federation (UK), put it on their letterheads and urgently email it to the Supreme Court of India on supremecourt@nic.in in the next 24 hours.

Chief Justice of India, S. H. Kapadia

Supreme Court of India

Tilak Marg

New Delhi-110 001

India

[Date]

Shielding of police officers who killed three innocent persons and concealed their killing for nearly two decades

1. The case in question Crl.A.No.753-755 has been pending before the Supreme Court of India for three years. The CBI is being prevented from investigating the killings of three innocent persons in Punjab. With changes in judges a new bench has been formed on several occasions without any progress.

2. This case involves the killings of Balwant Singh Multani, Manjit Singh Sohi and Balwant Singh Bhullar in December, 1991 and February, 1992. Both Balwant Singh Bhullar and Manjit Singh Sohi (killed in February, 1992) were Gazetted Government Servants, each with more than 30 years of clean and unblemished service and had no connection with any form of illegal activities. They were killed because they happened to be father and uncle of Professor Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar respectively. The third person Balwant Singh Multani was the son of an IAS officer in Punjab who was shown as escaped from custody and eliminated. This ghastly crime was committed by Chandigarh Police under the supervision of then SSP Sumedh Singh Saini.

3. There should have been an enquiry ordered by the Punjab Government or UP Government, but this enquiry has not been conducted and the circumstances surrounding these killings remain a secret.

4. In 2007, a Punjab and Haryana High Court related enquiry bought these killings to light and the blatant misuse of the process of law and grave violation of human rights. The main officer involved in this case, Sumedh Singh Saini, IPS, is involved in many other human rights abuses and is facing a trial in a case at New Delhi for eliminating three persons at Ludhiana in Punjab. These persons too were totally innocent and an investigation by the CBI resulted in this case emerging or there would have been a cover-up.

5. However, in the case mentioned in paragraph 1, even though the CBI, after a prolonged enquiry, concluded that there was foul play and all three persons were in the illegal custody of Chandigarh Police, there has been a stay on the CBI investigation for the last three years and prevented justice from being delivered. During the last 20 years the state of Punjab has not taken any action and the officer responsible for these killings has risen from the rank of SP to Additional DGP. The present Government of Punjab too has hired the best legal talent to defend this officer. The state is also desperately trying to carry out bench-hunting by getting the case fixed before a particular judge.

6. We are writing to you in the hope that you would check these facts and thwart this attempt to circumvent the legal process. This case should be entrusted to Judges who have no conflicts of interest with respect to Punjab.

Yours faithfully

[zoltansingh]

Does the above alter the links between the Sikh Federation and the DDT? In one of your other posts you wrote 'From the outset the Federation has been and will continue to be linked to the Damdami Taksal, the oldest Sikh seminary established by Guru Gobind Singh Ji.'

We all know the Badal sarkar have protected Saini and promoted him to head the vigilance cell. Dhumma is also close to the Badal sarkar and has aligned himself with the Badal family for the upcoming SGPC elections. So why can't the Sikh Federation use their links with the Taksal and get the Jathedar to put pressure on the Badals to take action against Saini for all his crimes (there are others apart from the ones mentioned above).

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Does the above alter the links between the Sikh Federation and the DDT? In one of your other posts you wrote 'From the outset the Federation has been and will continue to be linked to the Damdami Taksal, the oldest Sikh seminary established by Guru Gobind Singh Ji.'

We all know the Badal sarkar have protected Saini and promoted him to head the vigilance cell. Dhumma is also close to the Badal sarkar and has aligned himself with the Badal family for the upcoming SGPC elections. So why can't the Sikh Federation use their links with the Taksal and get the Jathedar to put pressure on the Badals to take action against Saini for all his crimes (there are others apart from the ones mentioned above).

The Sikh Federation (UK) has made clear in consultation meetings and when appearing on the Sikh Channel that Sikhs should respect the INSTITUTIONS of the Akaal Takht and Damdami Taksal linked to the 6th and 10th Gurus. The best examples were set by Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale how the two can co-exist.

It is a separate matter how the Sikh Federation (UK) exterts pressure on those that are Jathedhars of the above and others and the degree to which it has successes in influencing them on different issues. It is a quite separate matter if these Jathedhars can influence the Punjab Government in such cases.

Read about Sumedh Saini on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumedh_Singh_Saini and you will see he is a law to himself. There is no question the Badals are protecting him. This is why the Sikh Federation (UK) has emphasised since it was set up in September 2003 that it is INDEPENDENT to criticise who it wishes in Punjab and exert PRESSURE in the interests of the Panth.

[zoltansingh]

I agree that we should respect the INSTITUTIONS of the Akaal Takht and Damdami Taksal linked to the 6th and 10th Gurus BUT that does not mean we have to respect Badal appointed jathedar and people like Dhumma who align themselves with Badal.

Have the Sikh Federation asked people like Jasbir Rode and Dhumma to lobby Badal with regards to Saini?

[Tejvir]

Any news?