AMRITSAR: The Acting Jathedar of Sri Akal Takht Sahib Giani Kuldip Singh Gargajj, taking strict note of a news published today, has said that the Punjab Police Welfare Association's standing in favour of several police officers convicted by the CBI court for their role in fake encounters of Sikh youth after almost three decades and demanding their release and restoration of other facilities from the Governor of Punjab is unethical and unconstitutional.
Jathedar Gargajj told Punjab Governor Gulab Chand Kataria that the victim families of Sikh youths have had to fight a long legal battle for the last three decades to get the police officers convicted and punished by the CBI court, during which the culprits were given promotions and facilities and now the government is finding excuses to release them.
He said that if the government has to do this, then what is the point of the sentences given by the court. These police officers had kidnapped and killed thousands of Sikh youths in fake encounters in 1990-94, for which they had to be punished.
He said that in the cases of kidnapping and extra-judicial killings of Baba Charan Singh Kar Sewa Wale, Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra, Shaheed Bhagat Singh's relative Kuljit Singh Dhatt, Sulakhan Singh Bhakna who contributed to India's freedom struggle, many officials of Army, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Police and Electricity Board, these accused police officers have been punished after a long legal battle.
He said that releasing these police officers would be another injustice to the victim families.
Jathedar Gargajj asked Punjab Governor Shri Kataria that this matter is related to a long-standing human rights violation in Punjab, therefore any decision should be made according to the sentiments of Punjabis, especially Sikhs.