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New Delhi, October 29 (Punjab Post Bureau)- The President of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) Manjit Singh G.K. had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding setting up of a SIT Committee, civil \u00a0in nature in the Home Ministry government of India to ensure that Sikh families who have lost their property or means of livelihood because of the genocide and looting of innocent Sikhs in 1984 to give them justified compensation of minimum Rs. one thousand crores in relief.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt is humbly submitted that in the 1984 Sikh genocide, apart from unhindered and rampant killing, the movable and immovable properties (of innocent Sikh people) were set on fire and destroyed. And thousands of Sikhs, being hounded and threatened, left their entire properties, all their belongings and went to safe places to save their lives\u201d, G.K. told the PM.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 G.K. said that in terms of magnitude the Sikh genocide and following riot was ten times larger than the killings and hounding of Kashmiri Pandits in Srinagar.\u00a0G.K. brought to the notice of PM said that as per the available reports, a total of only 399 Kashmiri Pandits were killed in that incident, whereas in so far as Sikh Genocide is concerned it is well known that more than 8000 Sikhs were killed all over India and out of it, about 4000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi alone.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIn terms of striking speed, and heinousness of the Sikh genocide it was far more heinous and inhuman than what happened to Kashmiri Pandits spread over several years from 1990 to 2011, they had sufficient time to think, plan\u00a0 and collect all their belongings and valuables and escape to the safe places\u201d G.K. wrote in the letter comparing the two.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 G.K. informed PM Narendra Modi, that Guru Teg Bhadur Ji, the ninth Guru undertook the supreme sacrifice for the protection of the most fundamental of human rights, when people of the Kashmir, who were Hindus Pandits (Scholars\u2019 who were being threatened with conversion to Islam under the threat of death by Muslim Emperor Aurangzeb in 1675 and then Guru Teg Bhadur Ji took critical decision to lay his life to protect the human rights of the Kashmiri Pandits and practice their religion freely.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But in so far as the Sikh genocide and following riot is concerned, indiscriminate killing, looting and rioting that continued for three days before one could understand and there was no time for the affected innocent Sikhs to think of any of his belongings or valuable, said G.K.<\/p>\n
After several representations and with the intervention of the Apex Court, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been established to investigate into the crimes committed in that incident. And so far no efforts have ever been made by any government, to compensate those who lost their property in the same way as the Kashmiri Pandits have been compensated in term of loss of their property in the Kashmir Valley in Srinagar, pointed G.K. in the letter.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 G.K. demanded for setting up of a new SIT Committee of a civil nature as done in the case of Kashmiri Pandits, to ensure that Sikh families who have lost their property or means of their livelihood because of the genocide in 1984 get justified compensation minimum rupees one thousand crores in relief for the assets that were burnt , destroyed, and stolen and were not given the justified amount as per the\u00a0 then market value of the properly .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi, October 29 (Punjab Post Bureau)- The President of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) Manjit Singh G.K. had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding setting up of a SIT Committee, civil \u00a0in nature in the Home Ministry government of India to ensure that Sikh families who have lost their property …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-national_international"],"yoast_head":"\n