1984

A man was sentenced today to life imprisonment for burning alive four persons in Trilokpuri area of East Delhi during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots which had broken out here following the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Additional Sessions Judge P S Teji also imposed a fine...

The Lost Children of Punjab: 1984-2011 Posted by Mehmaan (Guest) A couple days ago I was reading some news articles on Hondh Chillar and Pataudi. Some of these articles include photographs from the two big events that took place at Hondh Chillar–clean up of the destroyed gurdwara building...

1984.Riots in pataudi. Not a whisper escaped Tehelka Magazine, Vol 8, Issue 10, Dated 12 March 2011 As the media focusses on Haryana’s Hondh-Chillar massacre, AVALOK LANGER unearths evidence of another anti-Sikh carnage never reported before AMIDST FIELDS of ripening wheat, a man who had never...

1. Sikh Introspection This is not a witch hunt but a review if the current process of communication and information flow from Sikh grassroots to SGPC and Akal Takhat Sahib ji needs improvement. The end objective in this should be to ensure that any future such incidents are recognized...

Chandigarh February 18: 26 years after Sikhs were killed in organized and systematic attacks across India, a crime scene consisting of a complete village of torched houses, burnt Gurudwara and scattered human bones was discovered at the site of village Hondh-Chillar, in District Rewari...

AHRC supports Sikhs' demand for "no immunity" to Kamal Nath New York: After the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) supported the prosecution of Kamal Nath in its recent statement, the demand of Sikhs for "no immunity" to Kamal Nath in pending case before U.S. Court catches the attention of...

Kamal Nath summoned by US court in 1984 Sikh riots case By Arun Kumar Washington, Jan 23 (IANS) Indian Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath has been summoned by a New York court for a pre-trial conference Feb 9 for his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.The trial will proceed as the...

Ludhiana (February 02, 2011): A statement, dated 27 January, 2011 released by Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reads as follows: A ‘default order’ issued by a District Court in the United States against Union Minister Mr. Kamal Nath has once again brought the question of sovereign and...

NEW DELHI: A woman, whose father was killed during 1984 anti-Sikh riots here, on Wednesday stood by her earlier statement in a Delhi court that he had seen senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar inciting the mob during the carnage. "It is incorrect to suggest that I had not seen Sajjan Kumar in...

Even as pressure mountson government to dismiss Kamal Nath from the Union cabinet and take action against him for his alleged involvement in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Indian government supported the Union urban development minister saying that he will continue to enjoy diplomatic immunity in the...

Published: Friday, Jan 28, 2011, 2:20 IST | Updated: Friday, Jan 28, 2011, 2:20 IST By Pankaj Sharma | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA More trouble is brewing for Union urban development minister Kamal Nath as the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots have urged United States government to deny...

NY court summons Kamal Nath in Sikh riots case, US declines diplomatic immunity Amitav Ranjan Washington has declined to step in and provide diplomatic immunity to senior Congress leader and now Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath who has been summoned in a civil lawsuit filed in a New...

NEW DELHI: Canadian MP Sukh Dhaliwal, who sponsored Sikh Genocide Petition before Canadian Parliament appealed to the Sikh community to come forward help the widows of November 1984. Distressed at the plight of widows of November 1984, MP Dhaliwal lamented that not only that justice has been...

YouTube - A Sikh Story 1984 - General Brar Interview With Sonia Deol

New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) A woman, whose father was killed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today alleged before a Delhi court trying senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar that she had named the politician in 1984 as an accused but instead of any action being taken against him, she was implicated in false...

Witness alleges getting threats for being outspoken in 1984 New Delhi, Jan 10 (PTI) A woman witness, whose father was killed in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today alleged before a Delhi court, which is trying Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others, that she and her mother had received threats for...

CHANDIGARH: Sukh Dhaliwal, the Canadian member of parliament of Indian origin, who created a flutter by introducing a petition in Canadian Parliament for recognizing 1984 anti-Sikh riots as 'Sikh genocide', in June last year, is now carrying the same appeal back home. The Canadian government...

A woman witness today identified senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others before a Delhi court and related how her father was killed by a mob in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Nirpreet Kaur deposed how accused Balwan...

A large oil painting of a tall and handsome Sikh dominates Lakhbir Kaur's modest sitting room in Kumbra village in Mohali, near Chandigarh, Punjab. "I found a small black-and-white one of my father in a relative's album and my husband got a friend of his to make this painting." Recalls...

A woman today related before a local court, which is trying senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others, the sequence of events leading to the murders of her husband and parents-in-law during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots but said she had not seen the rioters including Kumar. "On November two...