Tag Archives: 1984 riots

Shiromani Akali Dal ex-serviceman wing for routing Sarna from Delhi Sikh Gurdwara committee

Barnala,Punjab: Supporting the SAD in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara committee elections, the party’ ex serviceman wing has called upon Delhi Sikhs to cast their votes in the January 27 elections to religious body to the SAD. In a meeting here on Wednesday, the ex-serviceman state unit asked its members to reach Delhi and ask Sikhs to vote for the SAD. Wing’s ...

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Beyond the pain of anti-Sikh genocide

Punjab,India- Some memories do not fade, however old they become. It is really the pain which accumulates because of disappointment and helplessness in not finding justice. I realised this the other day when an old Sikh friend of mine called me from Faridkot in Punjab and cried on the phone. He asked me again and again why the government did ...

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Sikh group demands action against perpetrators of 1984 Sikh Genocide

New Delhi: A Sikh group today criticised the Centre for “failing” to punish those involved in the 1984 Sikh Genocide and demanded immediate judicial action against the perpetrators of the violence. The All India Sikh Conference also said it would not condemn the attack on Lt General (Retd) K S Brar early this month in London. Brar had led the ...

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Shekhar Kapur remembers 1984 massacre

New Delhi, India: Moved by renowned journalist Rahul Bedi’s recent recollection of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has come out with his own memories of the ’savagery’. ‘How does a city descend into savagery? A city I was brought up in – my own Sikh friends hiding with their families in safe houses to save ...

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1984 Sikh Genocide case: Trial court rejects CBI claims

New Delhi, India: A trial court on Tuesday dismissed the CBI’s contention that it was not under a metropolitan magistrate’s jurisdiction to decide on the agency’s probe report giving clean chit to former Union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. After almost five months of gruelling arguments with CBI questioning the jurisdiction of a magisterial court on ...

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