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Amritsar, November 18- Dal Khalsa today took a dig at rulers of Punjab for failing to deliver ‘real justice’ to victims of police firing in Behbal Kalan and instead resorting to cheap tactics of offering cash or job to kin or building memorial in victim’s memory. The organization asserted the compensation without bringing the guilty cops to book had little meaning.
Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh said Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal took days and weeks to muster courage to meet the aggrieved family members without bothering to ensuring the arrest of cops who ordered firing on protesters who were staging peaceful protest against the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib. It’s typical style of governments be it Union or state to silence voices of victims by offering them monetary compensations.
He asked Sukhbir to explain the difference between his Akali led government and the successive governments at Centre that have denied justice to victims of November 1984 killings and instead has doled out financial compensation to them.
Dal Khalsa clarified that in the eyes of law, offering financial compensation to victims of state terrorism was secondary and it would never be considered as justice in real terms.
Reiterating that nothing short of arrest of erring cops would soothe the hurt sentiments of family members in general and community in particular, he said both father-son duo running the government were playing dual game with the people.
He said Badal Senior’s tone and tenor was apologetic while Badal Junior was spewing venom on dissenting Sikhs. He condemned the arrest of Panthic leaders on flimsy grounds.
Asserting that sedition law was being misused by all governments to fix their adversaries, Harpal Singh Cheema, chairman Sikhs for Human Rights said dissent was not sedition. Terming the arrest of Panthic leaders as unconstitutional, he said the apex court has ruled that seeking Khalistan through peaceful means was neither illegal nor seditious.
