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25 years later, Sikh dies without any justice
WSN Network 

MOHALI: An anti-sikh riot victim with a paralysed body lying on bed since last 25 years and a key witness in former union minister Sajan Kumar case, expired at his Mohali residence on Monday without any justice. The victim, Gurcharan Singh, had protested a number of times even in very bad health, seeking justice. He had suffered heavy loss when a mob allegedly led by Congress leader Sajan Kumar threw him in a burning vehicle in front of his house in Uttam Nagar colony during the 1984 anti-Sikh massacres in Delhi. Before throwing him into the burning vehicle, the mob had also set his house and four shops afire, in which his matternal uncle Santokh Singh had died while his elder brother Tejinder Singh had fractured his backbone.

He was survived by half burnt body and lying on bed at the resident of his two brothers near Mohali. He struggled for getting a compensation of Rs two lakh and it was unfortunate that the state government had failed to give him justice, a fate that many of the 1984 massacre victim families also face. The CBI recorded his statement in April 2008 in Sajan Kumar’s case only after some activists  raised a lot of hue and cry. Now, he was scheduled to again appear for the statement on February 19 in the case in a Delhi court. Gurcharan Singh was cremated in Phase VI of Mohali on Tuesday afternoon.

18 February 2009
 

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