Acquittal of Sajjan Kumar scratched wounds inflicted 28 yrs ago: Sikh organizations

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 3: Acquittal of senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case has scratched the wounds inflicted more than 28 years ago on the Sikh psyche.
This was stated in one voice by various Sikh organizations here today.
Sajjan Kumar, one of the Congress leaders, who masterminded and supervised the planned massacre and genocide of the Sikhs in Delhi and also in other parts of the country in 1984, was acquitted by the Delhi Local Court and this decision has sent shock waves among the Sikh community people, particularly among those, who had lost their kin and kith during the genocide, said JS Mangal, National Vice President, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), during a press conference here today.
We reject the judicial pronouncement of the Delhi Local Court, who acquitted Sajjan Kumar, Mangal added.
“Sikhs are of the considered opinion that in pseudo democratic and pseudo secular India, justice will remain illusive for the minorities, particularly the Sikhs, for all the times to come”, he said.
“Sajjan Kumar along with other Congress stalwarts meticulously supervised and directed the killers for the inhuman/genocidal, when India erroneously continues to proclaimed herself as largest democracy of the world, which infact is nothing but a fraud coined to mislead the world”, he alleged.
Among others present were Mohinder Singh and Balbir Singh, president and general secretary, SAD (B), Ram Singh, general secretary, SAD (A), Kuldeep Singh, president, Sikh United Council, Manmohan Singh, president, Sikh Student Federation, etc.
Meanwhile, District Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (DGPC), has also expressed serious concern over the acquittal of Sajjan Kumar and described it as a blot on the face of secularism, justice and democracy in India.
A meeting of DGPC members, management committee of local gurdwaras, Sikh scholars and intellectual was held under the chairmanship of its president Dalip Singh to express resentment of Sikh community over this verdict.

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