AMRITSAR: The Rashtrawadi Shiv Sena (RSS) took out a march on Friday, in protest against the name of Jarnail Singh Bhindrawale being inscribed on the gate of the Operation Bluestar Memorial built in the Golden Temple complex. Given the sensitivity of the issue, the administration didn’t allow the RSS members to march up to Shani Mandir, situated close to Golden Temple, following which they... 

First, on April 12 Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar was sentenced to death after 23 years on death row, despite pleas for clemency from leaders in the Sikh community. Then, on Tuesday Sajjan Kumar, a senior Congress party politician, was acquitted in a case relating to the death of five people in Delhi during anti-Sikh riots in the city in 1984. More than 3,000 Sikhs are believed to have died in the riots... 

The district Judge J.R. Aryan has convicted the other five accused in the case related to the killing of five people in Delhi Cantonment area following the assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct 31, 1984. Sajjan Kumar gets acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has been acquitted in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case by a Delhi Court. Five others have been convicted for offences under section 302 (murder)... 

London: Shaheedi Yaadgaar Bunga of Mahaan Shaheeds of June 1984, who sacrificed their lives defending Sri Darbar Sahib from the Invasion of Indian Army. SriAkhand Paath Sahib started yesterday and tomorrow will be Bhog and Bunga will be presented over to Panth by Damdami Taksal. Shaheedi Bunga is near Two Nishan Sahibs where Final Battle took place on 6th June 1984.  Read More »

The long waited Shaheedi memorial opening ceremony is planned for the 27 April 2013. The Kar-Seva of the Shaheedi Yaadgar is lead by Head of Damdami Taksal – Baba Harnam Singh Ji Khalsa in the memory of the Sikh Martyrs who were killed by the Indian Army in June 1984. Baba Harnam Singh Ji invites the Sikh Sangat to attend the grand opening on 27 April 2013 at Sri Darbar Sahib Complex.  Read More »

In a top level contact with India, the German government had informed it would not have deported death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar from Frankfurt in 1995, had it known that he would be punished with the death penalty. Following the rejection of Bhullar’s mercy petition by the then President Pratibha Patil in May 2011, the President of Germany wrote to her, expressing regret at Berlin’s... 

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is his deputy, will meet the Prime Minister today to discuss the fallout of the Supreme Court judgment rejecting militant Devender Pal Singh Bhullar’s petition that his death sentence be commuted to life. The Shiromani Akali Dal-led government in Punjab has said that it fears a law and order situation in the state... 

A group of UK-based Sikhs have protested outside the Houses of Parliament as part of a campaign to end the death penalty in India. Members of Kesri Lehar condemn the death sentences imposed on four Sikhs, including one convicted for the assassination of an Indian politician. The BBC’s Robert Pigott says the threat of execution is seen by some Sikhs as a key part of oppression against them. India’s... 

AMRITSAR: Damdami Taksal, a prominent sikh seminary once headed by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who was killed in Operation Bluestar to flush out terrorists from Golden Temple in 1984, has warned of “disastrous consequences” if Devenderpal Singh Bhullar is hanged after Supreme Court on Friday rejected his plea for commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment. Talking to TOI on Saturday,... 

After seeking clemency for Balwant Singh Rajoana, who is on death row in the Beant Singh assassination case, chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal have demanded that death sentence awarded to Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar in the 1993 Delhi bomb blast case be commuted to life term. The chief minister said on Sunday that he would meet president Pranab Mukherjee and prime...