Badal is pro-active to Protect “Pillars of State Protecting Machinery” of India
Patiala (09 August, 2008 – PNN) There is a long list of Police personal who are not just employees or members of armed forces of Indian State but in essence they are pillars of “State Protecting Machinery”. They have protected the State from “Anti State Elements” by eliminating them, mostly in fake encounters. Such “Elements” ranged from 90 years old women to four years old children. State can not tolerate any damage or threat of damage to these pillars, therefore many prominent leaders of Indian State often plead for withdrawal of judicial process or any other action initiated against cops like KPS Gill, Sumedh Saini and Swarn Ghotna. Recently Punjab’s Health Minister and legislative member from Sri Amritsar, Laxmi Kanta Chawla, has pleaded for withdrawal of all cases against all officers who carried (so called) “Anti-terrorism operations”. This statement was issued soon after Punjab & Haryana High Court ordered CBI to conduct an inquiry against Sumedh Saini in a case of abduction with intention to murder. Punjab CM, Mr. PS Badal, has always been pro-active in protecting such State pillars.
In July 2008 the Punjab & Haryana High Court order the CBI to conduct an inquiry for involvement of Sumedh Saini in the torture of “proclaimed offender” Balwant Singh Multani and “missing person” Balwant Singh Bhullar in connection with the 1991 bomb attack on him. This decision came on a petition moved by Prof. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar, who is presently in Tihar Jail and is facing death sentence. Soon after this decision of High Court the Punjab Government moved against it to the Supreme Court of India. In the SLP filed before the Supreme Court of India against the order of the High Court the Badal Government has taken the following stand:1. “It is submitted that it the State is extremely concerned over this turn of events in which decorated officers of the Police force who had been instrumental in the fight against terrorism being successful are now on the receiving end of criminal investigation, that too by a specialised procedure devised by the Hon’ble High Court. Balwant Singh Multani is a proclaimed offender in several cases and terrorist Devinder Singh Bhullar has been awarded death sentence for killing security personnel in an assassination attempt on Shri M.S.Bitta, the then President, All India Youth Congress at Delhi. The death sentence has been up-held by this Hon’ble Court. The High Court has directed that the CBI accept the word of such persons as sufficient to initiate criminal proceedings against decorated officers who have incurred the wrath of such elements”.2. “Such hardcore and experienced criminals, who have a well organized international support base are likely to misuse such orders to attempt victimization of dedicated Police Officers, which is a matter of concern to the petitioner”.3. “A complaint made by a terrorist who has been sentenced to death (the death sentence being upheld by the Hon’ble Apex Court) suddenly after 16 years is suspicious and indicative of the terrorist’s aim to abuse the process of law to try and become a “witness” in a case somehow in order to attempt escaping the death sentence”.
Badal Government was successful in obtaining a stay on order of Punjab & Haryana High Court. On 4th August, 2008 Shromani Akali Dal Amritsar (Panch Pradhani), headed by Daljit Singh Bittu, held a Press Conference at Chandigarh and blamed Parkash Singh Badal for applying double standards. A Press release of Panch Pradhani Dal claimed that the entire Sikh Panth is one for release of Prof. Bhullar but Mr. Badal, as usual has been playing a double game. On one side Mr. Badal meets the Prime Minister for Prof.’s release and on the other side he urges the Supreme Court to expedite the hanging. Badal’s govt. engaged a top most Supreme Court Lawyer Mr. Harish Salve and obtained a stay on HC order. In the affidavit it is stated that Prof. Bhullar is a hardcore & experienced criminal who needed to be hanged immediately and HC case against Mr. Saini is a ploy to delay Prof. Bhullar’s capital punishment.Speaking for the Dal, its Chairman Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu said that Badal Govt. has always promoted and protected anti Sikh and anti Punjab forces. Starting in 1978 by protecting Nirankari Chief to safe guarding Sirsa chief, from protecting high officials accused of genocide in Punjab to scuttling former Akal Takhat Jathedhar Bhai Gurdev singh Kaunke’s disappearance enquiry and dismantling of People’s Commission, and presently from protecting Sumedh Saini to eulogizing such a mass murderer and describing Prof. Bhullar as a hardcore criminal who should be immediately hanged.
He further said that, Prof. Deviderpal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death bypassing the law of land. Not only the Sikhs but all other communities and all justice loving people in Punjab, India and abroad Protested against this judicial murder. All political parties in Punjab including Badal Akali Dal were members of the Defence Committee Formed in defence of Prof. Bhullar, Many MPs of Europe and US came to his defence and Akal Takhat issued a Hukamnama to Sikhs to pray for release of Prof. Bhullar.
Daljit Singh Said that, Sumedh Saini, like KPS Gill is a mass murderer responsible for genocide of Sikh youth and he often boasts of eliminating five hundred Sikh youth. Mr. Saini is responsible for burning alive 4 family members of Bhai Balwinder Singh Jatana of Village Jatana of Ropar District, Including 90 years old grandmother. He is also responsible for eliminating 4 members of Mata Gurjit Kaur’s family of Village Sodhiwal (Zira) of District Ferozepur.
Mr. Vinod Kumar (NRI businessman), his brother-in-law Ashok Kumar and Driver Mukhtiar Singh were kidnapped by Sumedh Saini’s goons and eliminated for the simple reason that Mr. Vinod was a Partner in Saini Motors Ludhiana, a famous business concern, which was at odds with Mr. Sumedh Saini. The case is pending in CBI Court Delhi and on Nov 9, 2007 charges U/S 342, 343, 364 & 120-B IPC were framed against Mr. Saini And others. Instead of suspending Mr. Saini under rule 3 (3) of All India Service, Discipline and Appeals Rules 1969, the Punjab Govt. has been continuously elevating Mr. Saini’s position and Mr. Badal is projecting him as the next DGP Punjab. These are just a few prominent cases and hundreds of such cases remain dormant due to police terror and govt. pressures, they added.
Now, Prof. Davinderpal Singh Bhullar has also moved to Supreme Court stating that Punjab Government has mislead the apex judicial tribunal of India for obtaining stay on orders of Punjab & Haryana High Court against Sumedh Saini. He asserted the case was listed before various division benches and was placed before the particular Bench. “Moreover, the state, even in an application, filed before the Division Bench on May 19, through which it had sought to become a party to the pending litigation, never mentioned this aspect that the main accused, Sumedh Singh Saini, had at one stage conducted an inquiry against one of the judges of the Bench that had passed orders for the CBI inquiry, and did not make a prayer for the Bench to recuse itself from the case”. Elaborating, Bhullar added the state had sought leave to “place some material in a sealed cover or as may be permitted by this court and has averred that the material would reveal reasons indicating why a particular Bench, which passed the impugned order, should not have heard the matter.
Presently the matter is pending before Supreme Court of India for further hearing. But the question is whether mass murders like Saini could ever be brought to justice in this situation? and what should be done with those who claim that they are “akalis” but in reality are protecting those, who are guilty of mass killings.
Courtsy: Punjab News Network
