‘Set up SIT to probe Sikh killings in J&K’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 14: While demanding publication of Ansari Commission report, Sikh Progressive Front and other bodies urged upon the State Administration under Governor to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the killings of Sikhs during 1989 riots in Jammu.
Addressing a joint press conference here today Balvinder Singh president Sikh Progressive Front along with Surinder Singh Wazir general secretary, Harmohinder Singh president Displaced Kashmiri Sikh Conference, TP Singh president Kashmir Sikh Society, Manjit Singh and others said that even after the lapse of three decades the community has been kept in dark over the findings of Ansari Commission Report. It should be made public, they said.
Balvinder Singh said that he had gone through the report which contained adverse findings against the then Government as well as some senior police officers and also nominated some organisations which were responsible for the anti Sikh Riots of 1989, so the Government is shying away in publishing its report and making compliance of its recommendations for the reasons best known to those at the helm of affairs.
While expressing solidarity with the families of those who were mercilessly killed by the fundamentalist goons on this day, 30 years ago, the speakers said that despite the registration of 61 FIRs in different Police Stations of Jammu, it is unfortunate that till date not a single person has been arrested or prosecuted. They further said that State Govt instead of making compliance of Ansari Commission Report released only Rs 1.00 lakh to the NoKs of the deceased person which is a meagre amount to be paid for the loss of human life.
Representatives of various Sikh organisation present there said that there is a great resentment among the community members over the attitude of the successive Governments. They all demanded that Special Investigative Team (SIT) may be constituted in the State to probe all the Sikh killings where 17 persons were brutally killed in 1984 in Talwara, 14 persons who were killed on January 13, 1989 in Jammu, 35 persons were massacred during 2000 in Chitti Singhpora and killing of seven youths in Mehjoor Nagar Kashmir in 2001 and pay adequate compensation to the victims.
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