1984

An accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving the killing of six persons, defended former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar on Wednesday over his alleged role in provoking a mob during the carnage. Pleading innocence, Girdhari Lal submitted before Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta: “It is...

by Neelam Man Singh Image: Neelam Man Singh is first on the left. Punjabi culture lends itself very easily to a myth making industry that dresses its reality in such a way that the ‘copy’ became more real than the ‘original’. As a copy is always a distorted image of the real, a few...

“A community that forgets its martyrs falls into a constant decline and suffers from repeat persecution.” On the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, the Sikh Foundation highlights the active role it has played over the last 27 years in helping to seek justice for those innocent people that...

New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) Kishan Khokkar, brother of a former city councillor Balwant Khokkar, facing trial along with former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case relating to the killing of six persons, today told a city court that the ex-MP had not provoked him or any mob to...

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Jalandhar: Though once again welcoming the formation of the five-member panel by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parabandhak Committee (SGPC) to decide about space and shape of the June 1984 Memorial, the Panthic organisations on Friday claimed that the SGPC has done little in this regard — The...

New Delhi: A former MLA, facing trial along with Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case relating to killing of six persons in Delhi Cantonment area, on Friday claimed innocence before a city court saying it was a conspiracy to ruin his political career. "I was not involved...

Two years ago, I attended the 2009 Jakara Youth Conference with my wife, Sona Charaipotra, where the theme was “1984: Reflect. Respond. React.” Jakara has managed to do what many Sikh organizations, camps, and Gurdwaras have failed to do: to bring together Sikh youth of all backgrounds, to...

About 25,000 Sikhs from across the UK attended a rally in Trafalgar Square to mark an attack on their holiest shrine in India, organisers have said. Earlier Sikhs marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square to commemorate the 1984 attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, north India...

May 31, 2011 Press Trust Of India New York, May 31, 2011 First Published: 12:14 IST(31/5/2011) Last Updated: 12:15 IST(31/5/2011) US court sets date for pre-trial hearing in 1984 riots case A US federal Court has set September 21 date for pre-trial hearing in a case against urban...

May 27, 2011 Another 1984 Sikh Genocide Site found in Jammu MASS GRAVE OF SIKHS KILLED IN NOVEMBER 1984 DISCOVERED IN JAMMU AISSF-SFJ to File Writ Petition before Jammu and Kashmir High Court Against Government’s Lack of Action on F.I.R Regarding Killing of Sikhs A Mass Grave has...

San Francisco, USA (18 May 2011): American Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee (AGPC) has supported the Panthic bodies that served an ultimatum to Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs in Amritsar to set up martyrs memorial in the Darbar Sahib complex and open ‘Martyrs Gallery’ at Akal Takht...

Victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots took the employees of Punjab Urban Planning and Development Authority (PUDA) to task on Friday when they locked the gate of the office located on Ferozepur Road and blocked traffic. The victims were protesting against the delay in the making of red cards for...

by Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia Secretary General, World Sikh Council: American Region A recently released WikiLeaks cable from August 2005 included an assessment by a senior diplomat at the American Embassy in New Delhi, India. It describes the parliamentary apology tendered by the Indian Prime...

Source: http://www.indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/1984-riots-witness-pressurised-to-save-sajjan-kumar/1/135267.html For more than 26 years, the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots have been fighting a long and lonely battle for justice. Justice is not only being delayed but virtually...

Nine gurdwaras razed in 1984 not reconstructed, say Sikh organisations The All India Sikh Students' Federation (AISSF) and the Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) have claimed to have identified at least nine sites in Delhi where gurdwaras were not reconstructed after they were razed by mobs during...

1984 riots: Petition against Prez award to IPS officer dismissed Harish V Nair, Hindustan Times In one of the severest criticism of the Centre on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Delhi High Court has accused the Centre of being “insensitive to the Sikh community”. This harsh criticism came in...

Chandigarh (March 29, 2011): Mass cremation site has been discovered in Pataudi, Harayan where several Sikhs were burnt alive in November 1984 while they were trying to flee the attackers. In the latest startling discovery AISSF has located several witnesses, survivors and photographs of the...

NEW YORK: The Congress Party has sought time till June 24 from a US court to respond to charges of "conspiring, aiding, abetting" the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 in a case filed by a community group. Adam Finkel, from New York-based law firm Sabharwal Nordin & Finkel which is also a counsel for...

New York, March 23 (IANS) India's Congress party has been asked to respond by April 1 to 'summons' issued by a US court to answer charges of 'conspiring, aiding, abetting and organizing' attacks on Sikhs in November 1984. The US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the...