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Sikh group wants 72 cops in net

TNN | Feb 2, 2014, 02.41 AM IST

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Sikh-group-wants-72-cops-in-net/articleshow/29735923.cms

NEW DELHI: At a time chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has ordered formation of an SIT to reinvestigate the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases, a Sikh group has demanded the arrest of 72 police officers.

In a press conference held on Saturday, the All India Sikh Conference also appealed to the Centre for an investigation into whether the last rites of victims were performed according to the doctrine of Sikhism. Alleging that all the bodies were in police custody, the group said, "Police set the bodies on fire in the forests on the outskirts of Delhi and the Aravali hills at night in outmost secrecy".

The group also termed the CM's stand on the riots as a "victory of democracy". "The Centre has been told that then LG P G Gavai, then police commissioner Subhash Tandon and then home secretary M M K Wali were mainly responsible for the massacre and they should be arrested," said Gurcharan Singh Babbar, president, All India Sikh Conference

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Blog: what a young army officer saw in '84 riots

(Colonel (retd) Bhupinder Malhi joined the army in 1983. He retired in 2009. He now runs a security agency in Delhi)

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Colonel (retd) Bhupinder Malhi (File pic)

We, a group of young Army Officers of Armoured Corps, were on board the Jhelum Express to attend the Young Officers Course at Armoured Corps Centre and School (ACCS) at Ahmednagar and happened to witness the anti-Sikh riots at very close quarters.

I boarded the Jhelum Express at Ambala Cantt early morning on 01 Nov 1984 along with few other course-mates. By the time our train reached outer Delhi near the Sabji Mandi area, we could see that Delhi was burning. Lots of trucks were on fire and smoke could be seen rising from buildings.

When the train reached the New Delhi Railway Station, we got down to enquire about the situation. We spotted many Sikhs lying injured on the platform and no one was willing to provide any first aid or help. We tried to help a few of the injured but our train was immediately moved out of the station.

The train was forcibly stopped near the Nizammudin Railway Station by an unruly mob. They started pulling out Sikhs from the train and there was chaos all around. We all quickly put on our uniforms and got down to help the Sikhs. We could not help most, though we managed to save a few. Some Sikhs had been set on fire; cycle rubber tyres were placed around them.

Some of us tried calling the police using the railways phone but there was no response. We also tried calling the Army headquarters' Duty Officer but could not reach them. We spotted an injured Sikh who was thrown on the railway track; two of us rushed to help him, but by the time we reached him, an approaching train over-ran him and we saw his body cut into pieces. We collected his body parts in a bed sheet and brought it to the railway platform to be handed over to police.

The train moved a bit and was again stopped near the Okhla slums. Another group of mob entered our AC 2 tier compartment by breaking the window glass as there are no iron grills in AC compartment. The mob systematically started searching the compartment and pulling Sikhs out of the train. We tried to reason with rioters and managed to save few fellow Sikhs. Unfortunately we could not save all. Capt Gill of 89 Armoured Regiment was stabbed at a distance of 1 ft from me. We requested rioters to spare his life as he was a soldier but the rioters argued that the person who killed Mrs Indira Gandhi was also a soldier.

We handed over Captain Gill's body to Army authorities at the Mathura railway station at night. Another Sikh officer named Sahota from GREF (General Reserve Engineer Force) was made to hide under the berth in our compartment. He was spotted by the mob and was killed there itself after he was hit by iron rods.

We were lucky to save my course mate Harinder (86 Armoured Regiment) who was being pulled out of the train but some of us held on to him and managed to free him from the clutches of death.

Another newly-wedded young officer from Artillery who was travelling with his wife was saved by shaving his beard and cutting his hair.

We repeatedly requested railways authorities for help but no one was willing to oblige. On the contrary, one TTE was seen indicating to the mob about the location of Sikhs hiding in the compartments.

Two officers Yadav (75 Armoured Regiment) and AP Singh (9 Horse) managed to get hold of a 12 bore rifle which was being carried by a soldier proceeding on leave. They fired a few rounds at the mob and the mob retreated. They were awarded subsequently for this bravery.

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30 years on, book on 1984 victims still banned

Amaninder Pal Sharma,TNN | Feb 3, 2014, 05.14 AM IST

PATIALA: In February 1985, a book "Who are the guilty?" detailing accounts of the victims of anti-Sikh riots was banned in Punjab, which was then under president's rule. Thirty years on, the ban on the only available documented account of Sikh survivors is yet to be lifted.

In November 1984, just two weeks after the Sikh carnage, the People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) had jointly published the book based on the accounts of a dozen victims' families who narrated the involvement of then Congress leaders in the killings. A month later, the book was translated into Punjabi by the Association For Democratic Rights (AFDR).

In February 1985, AFDR brought out the second edition of the book, incorporating even more chilling details of the victims' atrocities. This time, the book was immediately banned in Punjab, which was then under the president's rule, and professor Jagmohan Singh, its publisher, was charged under Section 121 of the IPC for waging war against the nation. Singh, retired as head of computer science department in PAU, was then the general secretary of AFDR, Punjab unit.

Even though charges against him were later dropped, Singh said he was still unsure whether the ban on the book had been lifted.

"Organized killing of Sikhs", as some quarters interpret the 1984 riots today, largely subsided on November 3, 1984, and in less than two weeks, teams of PUDR and PUCL had gathered accounts of victims and released a report on November 18 which was later turned into a book. "The book also had accounts of the Hindu families who had rescued Sikh families in their respective localities," said Singh, nephew of martyr Bhagat Singh who had published its Punjabi version from Patiala.

He said people of Punjab had maintained calm after the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. "Fear of communal polarization did persist. Publication of the book in Punjabi was an attempt to dispel notion that the entire Hindu community had spontaneously organized itself against Sikhs after Indira Gandhi's assassination," he added.

He said banning of the second edition came as a surprise for the democratic society, given the fact that it had detailed reports of how Hindu families in Delhi came out in open to rescue their Sikh neighbours.

"Even after 30 years, it is still beyond our imagination how the report, which highlighted compassion by the majority community towards the minor one, threatened the security of the nation. It was a repressive measure," Singh said.

Another person, also named Jagmohan Singh, who was in 1984 active in Patiala unit of AFDR, claimed that a large number of copies were seized from a Jalandhar press and these were still locked at "maalkhana" of a Jalandhar police station.

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