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Police Action Forced Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa to Jump Off the Water Tank: say EyeWitnesses
March 21, 2018 | By Sikh Siyasat Bureau
Kurkshetra, Haryana: Sikh activist Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa yesterday evening jumped off a water tank situated at his village Thaska Ali where he had started hunger strike seeking release of Sikh political prisoners who have completed minimum mandatory terms of their sentences.
A team of Sikh Siyasat News (SSN) today visited the village Thaska Ali and talked to the natives who said that the police action had forced Gurbaksh Singh to jump off the water tank.
Residents of Thaska Ali and others looking at posters placed on the water tank from where Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa had jumped off on Tuesday (March 20) | Photo: Sikh Siyasat News (March 21, 2018)
Villagers told SSN that Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa had started indefinite hunger strike at around noon on Tuesday (March 20, 2018). He was accompanied by his family members and others and after performing Ardas he came to Water Tank complex and went upstairs on the Tank.
Satinderpal Singh, a resident of village Thaska Ali said: “As soon as people came to know about the protest they started gathering around the water tank. When I came here I saw that Bhai Sahib (Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa) was sitting on a balcony of the Water Tank and the door of stairs was locked from outside”.
An eye-witness talking to the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN)
“Uh panni da camper te bistra lai ke utte gye c … unha agge vee lamba sama sangharsh keeta c” (He had taken a camper of water and beddings with him over the water tank … he had protested for long terms earlier also), Satinderpal Singh said while adding that there was not point for him to jump off the tank in normal course of his struggle.
He said that the police was trying to force him to come down and after the police started to go upstairs it was only then he jumped off the tank.
SSN team saw that the boundary wall of the water-tank complex was demolished from a side and there were two heaps of earth/soil on one side of the tank. Villagers told SSN that the police and administration had demolished this wall yesterday around evening and the soil heaps were created.
Villagers opined that the police had not taken enough precautionary measures before attempting to forcibly bring Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa down.
A villager told SSN that the net placed by the police was merely a formality as it covered around ten squarefeet and it was no way a sufficient measure.
An eye-witness pointing towards the place where police had placed net. He said that most of area was not covered and placing net was just a formality as it covered very small area
Villagers who were present on the spot when Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa jumped off the water tank told SSN that Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa was repeatedly asking the police to back-off warning that if police try to forcibly bring him down he would jump off the tank.
“Unna keha vee c ke tusin mainu majboor na karo, te savere 8-9 vaje tak aa jaaeo te masle baare gall kar lavange. Par police valle manne nahin te kehnde asin hun appne tareeke naal hee tenu thale laavange” [He (Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa) had told the police to not to force him and to come for talks around 8-9 am in the morning but the police did not agree and said they would bring him down in their own way], said an eye-witness.
“Jiven hee police tala tod ke uppar jaan lag payi taan unna ne school vaale paase shaal maar ditti” (As soon as the police started going upstairs after bearking open the door lock, he jumped off the tank on school side), said Satinderpal Singh.
POLICE HOLDING BODY OF GURBAKSH SINGH KHALSA; VILLAGERS, SIKH SANGAT STARTS PROTEST
A view of ongoing protest at Haryana SH 4 near Thaska Ali [March 21, 2018]
At the time of writing this news (4:53 pm IST @ 21 March 2018) the police was holding the dead body of Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa in a vehicle while his family members along with villagers and representatives of Sikh organisations were staging a dharna on Haryana SH 4. The protesters are demanding registration of an FIR against police officials who were present on the spot when Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa jumped off the water tank, maintaining that the police action had forced him to jump off the tank. On the other hand police is trying to convince the protesters to perform ‘Antim Sanskar’, while denying to hand over his body to the family.
Police vehicles at the spot of protest at on Haryana SH4 near Thaska Ali
Representatives of various Sikh organisation of Punjab and Haryana, including Bhai Dhian Singh Mand, Bhai Amrik Singh Ajnala, Prof. Mahinderpal Singh Patiala, Amrik Singh Isru, Jasvir Singh Khandur, Gurdeep Singh Bathinda, Mohkam Singh, Karnail Singh Panjoli, Gurpreet Singh Randhawa and local leaders of Haryana state unit of Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) were also present on the stop of protest.
Talks were on between the administration and the Sikh representatives.
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Related Topics: Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa, Sikh Political Prisoners
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