Police seize T-shirts bearing Sant Jarnail Singh’s images; Target Hondh Chillar whistle-blower

Ludhiana, Punjab (December 22, 2011): Punjab Police is reported to have seized T-shirts wearing photos of Sant Jarnail Singh Khalsa Bhindranwale.

A news reported by some sections of Indian media terms T-Shirts as “objectionable t-shirts used for the promotion of the cause of a banned militant outfit”, but it is not mentioned the name of the so-called banned outfit.

This time the police process is initiated on the complaint of Shiv Sena, a Hindu outfit, known for it’s anti-Sikh activities. Shiv Sena had objected to the installation of photo of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale at National Sikh Meusem, in Darbar Sahib Complex at Amritsar. This outfit, Shiv Sena, is termed as “social body” by the media reports.

As per information available with Sikh Siyasat Network Ludhiana police has registered FIR number 233 under section 153A, a part of offences against public tranquillity.

“A man named Manvinder in Ludhiana makes these t-shirts. These t-shirts have the photographs of militant leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and objectionable material has also been written on them and,” Surinder Singh, a police official, is reported to have said by media.

Manvider Singh Giaspura, who had discovered the remains of Sikh Genocide 1984 site Village Hondh Chillar, in Haryana said that he is being targeted by the State because he acted as a whistle-blower to preserve the Sikh Genocide 1984 site, which remained ignored for more than 25 years. His house was ransacked back in March, in his absence.

“Moreover the t-shirts had the photograph of Bhindranwale along with the text which read ‘when the Indian army sets its foot in the Harimandir Sahib complex, the foundation stone of Khalistan will be laid’ was written” news report added.