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Serving the ends of justice
 This
week, Punjab witnessed how the justice dispensing system works in
real life. Not one right thinking person in India, no matter to which
religion he belongs, will ever deny that the Beant Singh-KPS Gill
regime was a regime of gross human rights violations and the
government was the most undemocratically elected in the history of
Punjab. Only six percent of the people of Punjab had voted for a
Congress government and Beant Singh was the handpicked choice of the
Indian establishment, as was KPS Gill.
When Beant Singh was killed in 1995, the action was actually a
reaction. Few tears were shed for the man, and such was the real
nature of the relationship between two human rights violators that
even KPS Gill as the Director General of Police did not order a
separate inquiry. Not one policeman was acted against, not one
officer shifted or transferred and no demands for a judicial probe
made. The Indian establishment was least interested in finding out
how the most protected chief minister’s security was breached. But
all it needed to do that was a resolve that the man whose prime
business has become to kill innocent Sikh youth needs to meet
justice.
Beant Singh was ripped apart on August 31, 1995. His Man KPS
Gill was later convicted of crimes which are loathe for any human
soul — pinching women's bottoms in public. What lesser men
could the Indian establishment find to annihilate the Sikhs?
But while this was a political murder, and the defence counsel of
the convicted made it clear in the CBI court that the murder of
Beant Singh was ‘divine justice’, that his regime was worse than the
Mughal rule, and that those who committed the murder were avenging
the dishonor of an entire community. Kudos to Balwant Singh and
Jagtar Singh Hawara who have refused to even appeal against the
death sentence. Pratibha Patil's dossier will have no more
applications from the Sikhs and the one from Prof Devinder Pal Singh
Bhullar will be enough to embarrass the Indian regime, if it knows
how to be embarrassed at all.
But then, the same justice dispensing system is being exposed day
after day in the case of Dera Sacha Sauda where it takes the CBI
years and a directive from the High Court to submit its charge sheet
clearly stating that Gurmeet Ram Rahim was a rapist and a murderer.
The fact that the CBI has not asked for his arrest, and the kidglove
treatment extended by the Punjab Police cops in the theatrical
arrest and release of the dera head in Sirsa a day earlier shows
that the Indian establishment is hell bent on protecting its agents
who are ready to penetrate into Sikh faith and forever conspire to
weaken the religion. In times like these, it is all the more
important that the Sikh community realizes the forces that are
working to safeguard the interests of the community and those who
are stabbing it in the back.
It is also time that the organizations like the SGPC and the great
institution of the Akal Takht and the Sikh clergy guide the Sikh
quom by acting not in the interests of the political masters whose
one point aim is to rule and mint wealth rather than uphold the
community's interests in the face of the combined might of the
Hindutva forces and the anti-Sikh lobby.
It is in this context that men like Simranjit Singh Mann, Bhai
Daljit Singh, the many leading lights of the Sant Samaj, the panthic
organizations, the various Taksals, and the Sikh Diaspora should
work towards coagulating forces while ending their own identity
rather than taking potshots at each other.
1 August, 2007
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