Congress and Akalis collude in deflecting Bargari sacrilege probe: Forum
Chandigarh, June 17, 2018: Following the footsteps of his predecessor Badals, Chief Minister Capt Amrinder Singh too is trying to delay and deflect the investigations into the Bargari sacrilege case, alleged Chandigarh-based Punjab Forum in a statement issued here on Sunday.
The signatories to the joint statement also alleged that the CM has taken shelter behind the ongoing probe into the matter being undertaken by the CBI and the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission.
The signatories to the statement included former IAS Gurtej Singh, Prof Gurdarshan Singh Dhillon, Jaspal Singh Sidhu, Sukhdev Singh, both journalists and Gurpreet Singh, spokesman Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Chandigarh
Since June first, Punjab Police have made some arrests and its Special Investigation Team (SIT) has freshly enacted a drama of searching for a copy of holy Sikh scripture allegedly dumped in the drain in the area.
“Such search by SIT is a sheer mockery played on the religious sentiments of the people as how anyone can think of locating the holy scripture which was allegedly thrown in the drain three years ago after stealing the same from a gurdwara in village Burj Jawahar Singh wala (Faridkot district) on first June in 2015”, the statement added.
As reported in the press, SIT chief DIG Ranbir Singh Khatra who led the pre-dawn search exercise yesterday claimed that they were sincerely looking into clues acquired from the accused.
“In fact, Captain Amarinder Singh has failed to honour his pre-election commitment that his government would make the truth behind the Bargari sacrilege public within weeks after coming into power. Now it looks like the CM and the Badals have developed a tactic political understanding over the issue which has resulted in the tardy investigations into the matter,” the statement said.
On the other hand, the Badals are said to have questioned the recent arrest of some accused from the Sirsa Dera premises. The questions raised recently by the Badal family owned television, PTC into the veracity of investigations is also an attempt to build a false and confusing narrative through the dissemination of fake news, said the Forum.
The Badal-BJP combine was ruling in 2015 when the Bargari sacrilege incident took place and it had not made any serious effort to find out the truth. Rather, they had attempted to suppress the peaceful protestors by brutally firing upon them and by wantonly killing the two.
They also deflected the investigation by falsely accusing two devoted Sikhs of committing the crime and later torturing them in police custody to elicit confessions from them. Such conduct made the Sikhs in general suspicious about the Badal- BJP rulers’ complicity in the sacrilege, regardless of who the guilty ones were, alleged the statement.