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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Sikh Organisations for General Amnesty to Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana (India)

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Sikh outfits here today urged Jathedar Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikhs, to ask Punjab government to pass a resolution seeking amnesty to Balwant Singh Rajoana who has been sentenced to death for killing former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995.

The leaders of the outfits, who submitted a memorandum to the Akal Takht, were former Punjab Education Minister Manjit Singh Calcutta, former MP Dhian Singh Mand, United Sikh Movement Bhai Surat Singh, Akali Dal Panch Pardani Bhai Jasbir Singh, Sikh Student Federation president Karnail Singh Peermohammed, Akali Dal Delhi Balwinder Singh Bhullar, President Shriomani Akali Dal (Amritsar) President Simranjit Singh Mann besides others.
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The Sikh organizations appealed to the Akal Takht to take necessary and early steps to issue directions to SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar to help save the life of Rajoana.

They claimed there was lot of anxiety in Sikh community when the news with regard to hanging of Balwant Singh Rajoana was flashed in the section of media.

However, Jathedar Akal Takht Gyani Gurbachan Singh said people from different walks of lives were asked to reach at Teja Singh Samundri Hall, known as mini Sikh parliament on March 23 when a strategy is to be announced before the gathering to launch effective efforts to save Rajoana from the gallows. He is scheduled to be hanged on March 30.

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The Jathedar said saving the life of Rajoana was not a political issue but a matter related to Sikh community.

Punjab’s late chief minister Beant Singh was assassinated on 31 August 1995 at Chandigarh by members of militant outfit Babbar Khalsa group. The mastermind of the attack includes Jagtar Singh Hawara and Rajoana. Both were awarded death sentence by a special CBI court.

While commuting the death sentence of Hawara into life, the high court had, however, upheld the death sentence to Rajoana who had not opposed the punishment awarded to him in 2007 after an 11-year-old trial in a special trial court.

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