Faridkot firing: Victim’s household calls for justice, says each Captain and Channi have carried out nothing

A person named Sukhraj Singh has been sitting in a protest demanding justice for his father. Singh is the son of Krishan Bhagwan Singh, who died in a police firing case of October 14, 2015, in Behbal Kalan throughout a protest towards an alleged sacrilege incident of Shri Guru Granth Sahib that had occurred some days prior.
According to a report in News18, Singh has been ready for justice since 2015 towards the police personnel who opened fireplace on the protesters resulting in the demise of his father.
Around 50 days in the past, Sukhraj realized there was no hope left for getting justice from the outgoing Congress authorities for his father. He put up a tent alongside Faridkot freeway and sat in protest of the state authorities. He advised News18, “Neither Captain Amarinder Singh nor Charanjit Singh Channi gave us justice. Captain was removed for inaction in sacrilege and police firing cases. Channi did nothing too.”
In 2017, then-Congress’s CM face Captain Amarinder Singh, had met Mohinder Singh, father of the late Krishan Bhagwan Singh. He mentioned, “Captain Amarinder Singh came to me and told me that when his government is formed, he will put the culprits in jail in 20 days. Rahul Gandhi had also come. Arvind Kejriwal also came. No one gave us justice.” He mentioned Congress got here to energy with the promise to punish the culprits of the sacrilege and police firing instances, however they didn’t take strict motion.
Death of Krishan Bhagwan Singh
In 2015, Ang (pages) of Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji had been discovered scattered outdoors Gurudwara Sahib in Bargari. Demanding motion towards the perpetrator, folks of the Sikh neighborhood sat on protests. At Kokkapura and Behbal Kalan, police opened fireplace towards the protesters. Two protesters, Krishan Bhagwan Singh and Gurjeet Singh Bittu had died on the spot at Behbal Kalan.
The state authorities fashioned a number of Special Investigation Teams to research the police firing case of Behbal Kalan. Sukhraj Singh mentioned, “The SIT led by Kunwar Pratap Singh charge-sheeted some accused, but the court has not framed charges against them yet. A new SIT was formed by the High court last year to do a time-bound probe into the conspiracy, but that the SIT has not even visited us or done any probe here.”
Sukhraj had met Captain Amarinder when he was CM. He additionally met CM Charanjit Singh Channi and raised the matter. However, neither Capt Amarinder nor CM Channi acted strictly on the sacrilege and police firing incidents. Sukhraj claimed the Channi authorities didn’t do something within the matter, the household acknowledged. Calling the elections meaningless for his household, he mentioned the governments are ineffective, and the system has not modified.
‘Krishan was sitting peacefully when he was shot’, says household
Mohinder Singh mentioned his son was sitting peacefully on the protests towards the Bargari sacrilege incident. However, the police opened fireplace rapidly leading to his demise. He mentioned, “Police had ‘langar’ with us at the incident spot. I was present there. But on the SSP’s instructions, they suddenly opened fire and told me to run away, but they had already shot my son by then. Another boy from a nearby village was also shot dead. No one came to us later. On our name, Captain (Amarinder) became the CM. But he never came back to us. Our hope is now only on the people to get justice, not the government. We have no hope for elections or parties — the real culprits of the incidents have not been punished.”
The political ambiance round sacrilege instances
It is notable that Congress got here to energy claiming they’d take strict motion towards the culprits of sacrilege instances. The inaction from the federal government combined with instigation by the spiritual leaders has led to 4 murders in alleged sacrilege instances in 2021 alone, six in complete since 2015.
Navjot Singh Sidhu, chief of the Punjab State Congress, has been a frontrunner demanding motion from the Badal authorities after they had been in energy in 2015. Congress got here to energy, and SITs had been fashioned one after one other however didn’t lead to any concrete motion. When Capt left the put up of CM, he had dared now-CM Channi to behave towards Badals and mentioned the matter needed to be solved legally quite than politically.