My case of Gurudwara Guru Dang Mar was closed by a judge of Sikkim High Court. The decision given by him is purely an attempt to provide relief to the Sikkim Government even though the judge was conscious that she was biased, passed this order against his profession. For this, I would request the Sikh Sangat and all those curious people to see how biased, unjustly and irresponsibly the courts treat us Sikhs in India. You cannot go to any court against a judge’s decision because a thief and other thief, both are cousins. One judge defends another judge, hence he refuses to listen, I even went to the Supreme Court in this case, and there too my petition was dismissed. Even judges have a lot of excuses when they don’t want to hear. Your time, money and reputation gone. You feel hurt, you lost money, and the judges have no sympathy for you.
In this case, I was given directions from the Honorable Supreme Court that since the case had been registered in the Sikkim High Court, I should go to Sikkim and join this case, but to maintain the Gurudwara as it is, a ‘status quo’ was given. With which I reached Sikkim in September 2017 and filed my petition in the court.
Before me, Siliguri Gurdwara Committee had already filed its writ petition for this case in Sikkim High Court.
Though I was not a well-known name, the Sikkim High Court started treating me as unwanted person in this case. For the first 2 months, I did not even realize that there was a technical flaw in my petition, that I had not written in the prayer that I should be impleaded in this case as a petitioner.
When I found out, I immediately applied for the amendment in the petition, which took a long time to be granted. Perhaps it was only in May-June 2018 that I made the amendment finally. In amendment, I mainly demanded a judicial inquiry against the government officials and politicians who were accused of sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib.
What was surprising was that, this demand opposed by the joint working committee of SGPC, DSGMC and Siliguri Gurudwara Committees, the Siligudi committee was supported by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee by issuing an authority letter and its main culprits were Manjinder Singh Sirsa and Jagdeep Kahlon who were from the Delhi Committee (DSGMC), they were also participants in this case along with these Gurdwara Committees.
Then this demand of mine was not accepted till the end even though a citation of an early order of Hon’ble Supreme Court was quoted that the courts should accept this special court demand in religious matters, proper evidence was also given for this in writing and mentioned in my IA’s too.
This is how my 5 years were wasted? Finally, I was constrained to write a letter to the Chief Justice of India at Supreme Court and prayed that I should be heard during my lifetime because after filing the petition in this case, I had suffered 3 cardiac arrests and Corona during its peak.
They did not take any action in response to my letter because I had sent this letter on 4th April 2022, after this I did not go to Sikkim to appear for my hearing in May, then I received a letter from Sikkim High Court that I must reach Sikkim in the next date of June. And that my petition for impleadment will be reconsidered.Next month in June itself, I was made petitioner in this case.
Earlier the Court refused to hear me. I was kept away from the trial proceedings as I was only an applicant. Neither I was provided any information on trials, any document copy about any kind of court proceedings nor could I submit any documents. So the first thing I did soon after my impleadment was to submit the papers related to this case which were kept pending for the last five years.
I submitted two petitions on 31st October and 1st November 2023, these were filed in the office with numbers IA 21 and IA 22.
After this the court was on winter holidays but Sikkim High Court had refused to hear IA-21. The reason given was that the Court couldn’t recall the judgment whereas while hearing impleadment application of the Forest Department, I wasn’t allowed to participate in debate although this was against the rules.
But now after my impleadment their attitude against me didn’t change, Still, I was refused challenging Forest department to join this case by submitting falsehood under oath and misleading court on case. Court refused to hear this matter was in fact to provide a relief to the Forest Department and escape from passing any order against Forest Department.
I even filed a petition against this injustice in the Supreme Court but it was rejected when I demanded the same recalling the order of a judge. My petition prayer was not even seen but dismissed. In this way the Forest Department remained a party even though it had no basis in this case, it was definitely an offender in this case.
Gurudwara Guru Dang Mar is situated at an altitude of 18000 feet in North Sikkim on a barren, rocky and snowy land where vegetation is nil and trees do not grow at this high elevation and cold surface where a seed can’t germinate in adverse conditions but the Sikkim government accused the Sikh community that the Sikhs had cut trees to build a Gurudwara there, for which no permission was taken from the Forest Department and thus the Sikh community violated the Section-2 of the Forest Conservation Act 1980. It held guilty the Sikhs on committing non-forest activities on forest land. Non-forest activity can take place only on the land where there is reserved forest area, there were no trees at this place even a thousand years ago and there will not be trees even after the next 1000 years, so how non-forest activity could take place here?
IA 21 proves with full explanation that there are no trees at an altitude of 18000 feet and it is a rocky, barren land covered with snow, which even soil Conservation Department has certified it as barren, but the judge refused to accept this report.
In the end, Judge Meenakshi Madan Rai also gave her verdict against the Sikhs on hearing the Additional Advocate General of Sikkim in favor of respondents by accepting her plea. It wasn’t debated in the court but information taken in chamber.
The judge did not even try to find out whether there were trees here or not and whether the Forest Department had any revenue records to prove that this land belonged to them. Whereas before this decision, I had told this to the judge on September 1, 2023 and had also informed about that order of the Supreme Court in which the Supreme Court had laid down two conditions that any land can be considered as forest land only if one of these conditions is fulfilled i.e. either there should be a Govt revenue record or tree canopy but there was nothing, no trees and no revenue record. The SDM Chngthang had already issued a letter stating that the Lake Guru Daang Maar is beyond the limit of the revenue records but still the judge declared it a reserve forest.
In this way, rejecting IA 21, this land was considered as forest land and the area as reserve forest without having any tree growth.
Hence; I am pasting a copy of IA 21 in this blog, the readers should see for themselves how the courts do injustice to the minorities in India, they only prove that, ‘Whose stick is, he only owns buffalos!’
जब बंदा बहादुर जी नांदेड़ से सरहिंद की लड़ाई में जा रहे थे तो सोनीपत के पास के दहियों के गांवों में सेना ने पड़ाव डाला और दहिया खाप के लोगों ने न केवल उनकी खातिरदारी की थी बल्कि अपने जवान बेटों को सरहिंद की लड़ाई में समर्पित कर दिया था। जाट कबीलों में दहिया गोत्र का सिक्खिज्म के लिए त्याग व समर्पण अद्भुत रहा है।जब भी गुरुओं ने अन्याय व अत्याचार के खिलाफ जंग लड़ी तब दहिया खाप के लोग चट्टान की तरह डटकर उनके साथ न केवल खड़े रहे बल्कि कंधे से कंधा मिलाकर शहादतें दी है। एक ऐतिहासिक वाकया यह भी है कि गुरु तेगबहादुर ने सत्ता के अन्याय व अत्याचार के खिलाफ मोर्चा खोला तो सारी खापें उनके पीछे खड़ी थी।धोखे से इंसाफ की अदालत में गुरु तेगबहादुर के साथ गद्दारी की गई तो उन्होंने अपना शीश कुर्बान कर दिया था। गुरुजी की धड़ के साथ दुर्गति न हो इसके लिए रुई में लपेटकर पूरे घर को आग के हवाले कर दिया था जहां आज शीशगंज गुरुद्वारा बना है।गुरुजी का गर्दन के ऊपर का भाग लेकर लोग दिल्ली से अमृतसर के लिए निकले लेकिन सेना ने रास्ते मे चारों तरफ घेरा डाल दिया। खुशालसिंह दहिया का चेहरा व सिर गुरुजी से मिलता जुलता था।उन्होंने अपना सिर कटवाकर भाई जीवनसिंह के हवाले कर दिया कि मुगल सेना को मेरा सिर सौंप दो व गुरुजी का सिर लेकर आनंदपुर साहिब पहुंचो। सोनीपत जिले का बढखालसा गांव दहिया खाप की वो विरासत है जिसका सिक्ख कौम सदा सम्मान करती आई है। कल से शेरशाह गांव में संघी चिंचड़ो व आतंकी मीडिया ने किसानों के खिलाफ महापंचायत का राग अलापा तो दहिया खाप ने अनाज के साथ हजारों की संख्या में लोगों को 151 ट्रेक्टर-ट्रॉली भरकर सिंघु बॉर्डर पर भेज दिया। आतताइयों की सत्ता के खिलाफ सदा खापें ही लड़ती आई है और वर्तमान सत्ता जब जुल्म पर उतरेगी तो इनका बक्कल ये खापें ही उतारेगी। इनका 100 साल का लंगूरों को एकत्रित करके नफरत फैलाने का इतिहास है तो खापों का हजारों साल का मैदान में बलिदानों का इतिहास है। जब देश जात-धर्म की नफरत में पराकाष्ठा लांघने लगता है तो खापें खड़ी होकर देश को दिशा देती है।जब फिजाओं में जहर का आतंक इंसानियत को नोचने लगता है तो खापें मैदान में उतरती है।सलाम कीजिये दहिया खाप को जो बाकी खापों को भी उठने का ऐलान करके मैदान में आ डटी है। प्रेमसिंह सियाग
*सिक्खिजम की बड़ी-बड़ी सेवादार संस्थाओ को पंजाब आळे भाई समझाए कि राजस्थान के नव सिक्ख क्या चाहते है क्या सोचते है क्या करना चाहते है। संस्थाओं को राजस्थान में जो नये-नये सिख अपना रहे है उनसे संपर्क क्यों न तत्कालीन शिक्षा पर कार्यारम्भ करना चाहिए ये देरी किस सोच-विचार के लिए हो रही है बहुत से सवाल है लेकिन सब धीरे-धीरे करते है लेकिन राजस्थान का आदमी धीरज कम रखता है, ये भी एक कड़वा सच ही है।* * …. बड खालसा गांव और कुशल सिंह दहिया का इतिहास 90% तक सिक्खों को शायद पता ही नहीं होगा जबकि उनकी क़ुर्बानी बच्चे-बच्चे की ज़ुबान पर होनी चाहिए थी।* * …. बाबा बंदा सिंह बहादुर वज़ीर खान को कभी नहीं मार सकते थे अगर जींद और रोहतक के जाट साथ ना लगते ये भी 90% सिक्खों को शायद नहीं पता होगा।* * …. गुजरात आये एक चालाक ख़ानदानी भिखारी जिसने जाटों की कई पीढ़ियों को सबसे ज्यादा बर्बाद करने वाले मूलशंकर तिवारी उस स्वामी दयानंद का असली नाम था जो उस इलाके में मूर्तिपूजा और सती प्रथा व बाल विवाह का विरोध कर रहा था जहाँ पर ये बुराईयां थी ही नहीं! क्यों कर रहा था मकसद क्या था इससे भी 80% जाट और 90% सिक्ख अनजान हैं!* * …. पंजाब के 90% सिक्खों को राजस्थान के जाटों का सिक्खी में क्या योगदान है ये भी याद सायद नहीं है! मस्सा रांगड़ का इलाज राजस्थान के जाटों ने किया था…. ये वो ही रांगड़ था जिसने दरबार साहिब पर कब्जा करके उसके अंदर शराब के ठेके खोल दिये थे और रांगड़ीयों की लुगाइयाँ यानी सुंदरियों का डांस करवा रहा था। राजस्थान से चलकर गए जाटों ने रांगड़ की खोपड़ी उतार ली थी और म्हारे राजस्थान में लाकर उससे फुटबॉल खेला था उस जगह का नाम बुड्ढा जोहड़ है व वर्तमान में चुरू जिले के जैतासर गाँव का पानी पीने वाले जाटों का सिक्खों से जो सम्बंध बनने वाला है वो 90% सिक्खों को व जाटों को ही अचंभित करने वाला ऐतिहासिक होगा।* * …. प्यारे जाटों और खालसाओं! अपने बच्चों को बड़ खालसा गाँव में कुशाल सिंह दहिया के नाम पर बने गुरूदवारे में जरूर माथा टिका कर लाया करो ताक़ि जाटों का सिक्खी में क्या योगदान व क्या कनेक्शन था ये हमारा बच्चा-बच्चा जान सके और दोबारा कोई मूलशंकर दयानंद बनकर हमारी पीढ़ियों को ना बहका सके। सिक्खी का बेस है “कीर्त करो, बंड छको” यानि मेहनत करो और बांट कर खाऔ! ये मूलमंत्र 90% जाटों के के स्वभाव में व डीएनए में प्राकृतिक रूप से मिल जायेगा। यानि जाट स्वभाविक सिक्ख ही है। किसान आंदोलन में ये फिर सच साबित कर दिया की जब भी सिक्खों को ज़रूरत पड़ी जाटों को आगे पाया गया है।* * … वर्तमान में राजस्थान आळे जाट युवा (जो सैंकड़ों परिवार अभी इसी साल सिक्खिज अपना चुके है!) “सिक्ख इतिहास की विरासत” को संजोने के लिए क्या-क्या जमीनी प्रोजेक्ट्स खड़े कर रहे है कितनी दिक्कते सामने आ रही है उसकी जानकारी न अधिकतर सिक्खों है और न ही राजस्थान के चुरू, बीकानेर जिले को छोड़कर अन्य जिले के जाटों को जानकारी है।* *~ महावीर सिंघ खिलेरी (राजस्थान आळे)*
सत श्री अकाल ! कृपया एक बात सबसे पहले ध्यान में रखें कि सिख धर्म में कुल, गोत्र या जाति को कोई अहमियत नहीं दी गयी है!. गुरु गोबिंद सिंह जी जफरनामा में औरंगज़ेब को भरोसा देते हुए कहते हैं कि वह बेख़ौफ़ पंजाब आ जाये उनसे मिलने के लिए और कि पंजाब की बरार क़ौम उनकी विश्वास पात्र है, वह औरंगज़ेब को कोई नुकसान नहीं पहुंचाएगी! इससे दो बात सिद्ध होती हैं; १- औरंगज़ेब भले ही एक महाबली योद्धा और सम्राट था, फिर भी उसकी सेना को साथ लेकर पंजाब आने में की हिम्मत नहीं होती थी! २- बरार या जाटों कि निष्ठां और बहादुरी पर गुरु जी को पूरा भरोसा था! फिर भी उन्होंने किसी भी जाती या कुल को श्रेष्ठता नहीं दी, अमृत दान देते हुए उन्होंने यह वचन लिया है कि सिख कुल, जाति, गोत्र का कोई गर्व नहीं करेंगे! आप सोनीपत के पास दहिया खाप का उदाहरण दे रहे हैं लेकिन दहिया समाज का कोई योगदान सिख इतिहास में नहीं है क्योंकि गुरु जी ने बंदा बहादुर को अपने पांच तीरों, तीन प्यारों के अतितिक्त पंजाब में खालसा के नाम एक पत्र भी दिया था जिसमें सिखों को आदेश था कि वे बंदा बहादुर की हर संभव मदद करें और मुगलों से युद्ध के लिए तो गुरु के इस हुक्म को पूरा करने के लिए आतुर थे, यह कोई बंदा बहादुर का चमत्कार नहीं था, न ही उसके पास इस से पूर्व किसी युद्ध के संचालन का कोई अनुभव ही था! जब वज़ीर खान ने गुरु पुत्रों को शहीद किया था तो उसने कोई जंग नहीं जीती थी, यह तो गद्दारी की थी ब्राह्मण गंगू ने जिसने नमक तो गुरु का खाया था लेकिन धन की लालच में गुरु से गद्दारी कर गुरु परिवार को वज़ीर खान को सौंप दिया था, यदि जंग होती तो गुरु के तीरों की आब वज़ीर खान न सह पाता! गुरु जैसा योद्धा शायद ही कोई पैदा हुआ हो, प्रमाण देखना है तो दिल्ली गुरुद्वारा मोती बाग़ आ जाओ, आज अच्छी से अच्छी राइफल की गोली भो मोती बाग से लाल किला नहीं जा सकती लेकिन तीर में पत्र लपेट कर गुरु जी ने बहादुर शाह प्रथम के सिंहासन के पाए में मारा था, वो भी दो बार! तो ये मत सोचो कि बंदा, जिसको गुरु ने चुना हो, अमृत की दीक्षा दी हो, उसके सामने वज़ीर खान चीज़ ही क्या था? गुरु जी से जिसने भी अमृत की दीक्षा ली, उन्होंने अनुपम शौर्य का उदाहरण पेश किया है जैसे बाबा दीप सिंह, भाई मणि सिंह, बंदा बहादुर और पांच प्यारे आदि, यह लिस्ट बहुत लंबी है! यदि तुम्हें यह गर्व है कि जाटों ने गुरु पर कोई अहसान किया है तो सिख धर्म मत अपनाओ!
तुम इस लायक नहीं!
हम मूल शंकर तिवारी से अनजान नहीं, सभी सिखों को इसकी असलियत मालूम है, कहें तो मैं पूरा चिटठा खोल दूँ? भाई ज्ञानी दित्त सिंह जी ने इसे शास्त्रार्थ में तीन बार हराया अतः और इसने स्वीकार भी किया था! गुरु नानक के प्रति अपने अहम में इसने सत्यार्थ प्रकाश में अपशब्द, घटिया शब्दावली का प्रयोग किया है! जब इसकी अजमेर में मृत्यु हुई तो इसकी अंतिम इच्छा अनुसार कि…इसके शव को सिर्फ वे लोग ही कन्धा दें जिन्होंने अपने जीवन में तंबाकू का उपयोग न किया अर्थात किसी भी किस्म का धूम्रपान न किया हो! आपके राजस्थान में चार हिन्दू भी न निकले थे जो धूम्रपान न करते हों, आखिर इसकी शव यात्रा सिखों के कन्धों पर ही हुई थी, कहें तो उन चारों सिख भाइयों के नाम भी लिख दूँ?
आप हमें राजस्थान का इतिहास न ही पढ़ाएं तो बेहतर होगा, हम राजपूतों और मुगलों की प्रीत से भली भांति परिचित हैं! यदि राजस्थान के जाट इतने ही बलशाली और जोशीले थे तो राजपूतों के साथ मिलकर मुगलों से युद्ध क्यों न किये? इसलिए गर्व मत कीजिये, इतिहास अपने में बहुत कुछ समेटे बैठा, सिखों को नासमझ मत समझिये. हम बुड्ढा जौहड़ का इतिहास भी जानते हैं, भाई महताब सिंह और सुक्खा सिंह ने भरी खालसा पंचायत में (खाप में नहीं) जो प्रण किया था, उसको पूर्ण किया!
किसी भी सिख ने स्वयं वीरता का कोई उदाहरण पेश नहीं किया, यह करामात तो गुरु गोबिंद सिंह जी की होती है, सिख तो सिर्फ प्रार्थना (अरदास) ही करता है! इसलिए किसी भी वीरता पूर्ण कार्य के लिए कोई सिख श्रेय भी नहीं लेता अपितु अपने गुरु और परमात्मा का धन्यवाद करता है, बुद्धि, बल, ज्ञान व् सामर्थ्य सभी गुरु की देन हैं, और सिख को अपने गुरु पर भरोसा है! Ajmer Singh Randhawa
खुशालसिंह दहिया का चेहरा व सिर गुरुजी से मिलता जुलता था।उन्होंने अपना सिर कटवाकर भाई जीवनसिंह के हवाले कर दिया कि मुगल सेना को मेरा सिर सौंप दो व गुरुजी का सिर लेकर आनंदपुर साहिब पहुंचो। ऐसा कोई ऐतिहासिक साक्ष्य सिख धर्म में नहीं मिलता!
भाई जीवन सिंह को गुरु गोबिंद सिंह जी ने चमकौर के युद्ध मेंअपनी कलगी और पगड़ी दी थी क्योंकि शक्ल सूरत से वे गुरु के समान थे, लेकिन इसके पीछे भी इतहास की कड़ियाँ पटना साहिब से जुड़ती हैं जब बाल्यावस्था में जीवन सिंह ने गुरु जी के साथ खेलते हुए गुरु जी पगड़ी अपने सर पर धारण करने की चेष्टा की तो गुरु जी ने कहा था की भाई समय आएगा और मैं तब तुम्हें अपनी पगड़ी दूंगा ! और यह समय चमकौर के युद्ध में आया जब पांच प्यारों ने खालसा पंथ के अगवाई करते रहने के लिए गुरु जी चमकौर छोड़ने का आदेश दिया तब गुरु जी ने अपनी पगड़ी और कलगी भाई जीवन सिंह जी (मजहबी सिख) को दी जो दूर से गुरु प्रतीत हो रहे थे, गुरु जी के चले जाने के अगले दिन मैदाने जंग में उन्होंने अपनी शहीदी थई, चमकौर साहिब में उनका भी स्मारक गुरुद्वारा साहिब के रूप में स्थित है! लेकिन गुरु तेग बहादर जी के साथ ऐसा कोई साक्ष्य नहीं!
How the judge in Sikkim High Court fooled Sikh community by her prejudicial judgment to justify State govt on taking over the historical Sikh Gurudwara built in to commemorate visit of Guru Nanak?
Read eye witness account of 1982 when Gurudwara wasn’t built.
What is Lhakhang called in Sikkim? A small Buddhist temple is called Lhakhang which renovates in future as Monastery. Hardly any Lhakhang is present in Sikkim but 2-3 are found in Monasteries. There was not any small or big temple at Lake Guru Daang Maar. The Buddhists visiting Lake used to stack stones to lit incense and protect them from winds. The eye witness account also reveals it, the writer didn’t see any sign of worship by local Buddhists at Lake Guru Daang Maar in Sikkim. He found only a Sikh flag and worship of Guru Nanak in north Sikkim. No Buddhist deity or his picture was worshipped even not in Gompha (Buddhist village temple in Chungthang). They used to worship Guru Nanak only. Guru Nanak was their deity who was called as Nanak Lama or Rimoche Nanak.
The maps published by Survey of India or by Indian army, never marked this Lake as religious or shown any mark of temple here.
No picture of any Buddhist small or big temple is available to prove.
In the judgment, the judge has mentioned about Lhakhang (small Buddhist temple) at Lake Guru Daang Maar. We have the pictures to prove there was no sign of any Buddhist religion at this Lake. Only 4-5 flt stone slabs stacked on each other to lit an incense sticks like a Hindu custom in rivers of India.
Below few images of stones stacked in Lake Pangong Leh-Ladakh, India is pasted for viewers. In the end a picture taken at Guru Daang Maar Lake in early 82, is also placed, a Sikh flag unfurls beside it too. The eye witness account by Giani Brahma Singh ji, A Gazetted officer from western Railway who went there in 1982, penned down his journey explain what he witnessed there is already recorded and published in this book in 20 evidences on visit of Guru Nanak in Sikkim. Readers can see these pictures and see if there was any Buddhist temple before construction of Gurudwara in 1987?
This is also proved from viewing panoramic picture taken after Gurudwara Guru Daang Maar was built or of the mound on which Gurudwara is built, no sign of Buddhist worship could be found.
Stacked stones for worship in Lake Pangong, Leh-Ladakh.
Stacked stones at Lake Guru Daang Maar, no sign of any Gompha or worship of Buddhist religion are seen in this picture.
Stacked stones to worship the Lake beside the Sikh flag, seen at Lake Guru Daang Maar, pic. taken in 1982. No other sign of worship by Buddhist is visible at the shore Guru Daang Maar Lake.
We have two pictures of mound on which Gurudwara Guru Daang Maar is built after the surface was flattened. One picture is taken before it was flattened and the other after Gurudwara was built. Both pics are taken from same point and distance.
First we show you a photo of the hill dune as above, when the Gurudwara Guru Daang Maar was not built; the dune was round shaped. In this picture you can clearly see two things: –
For miles and miles away no trees are visible on this barren dune on which Gurdwara sahib is situated;
It is round on top of the hill because it had not been leveled then to construct the Gurdwara.
Picture of Gurudwara Guru Daang Maar situated on the mound, no sign of any Buddhist religion visible at the shore of Lake.
In this second picture the shape of mound on top is not round shaped but the soil that was removed from the top of the surface of the mound to flatten the land to build Gurudwara was thrown down which increased the width of the mound on the top. Which forest was here that Sikhs cut the trees to flatten the surface on top of mound to build the Gurudwara? How is Forest Conservation Act is violated?
The panoramic view of the Lake Guru Daang Maar, its periphery 1.8 Kms, It couldn’t be captured in one click, please check if you find any tree growth but Judge said Sikh community violated Forest Conservation Act by committing non-forestry activities. She ignored the fact that nature too has its own law, tree growth is stopped after 13000-14000 feet all over the world and in this region, tree growth stopped at Thangu, 20 kms before Guru Daang Maar and situated at only 13000 feet high. In absence of tree canopy or tree growth on a barren, snowy and rocky land be called forest? Its unculturable waste land, one may check the definition of wasteland.
Panoramic view Guru Daang Maar Lake. Only barren mountains are visible without trees. The difference is as to what really constitute ‘forest’. Till the advent of the new forest policy of 1988, the forests were conceived in terms of tree production forestry and therefore, only culturable forest areas were reflected in statistics. This rather ignored large extent of alpine pastures area under permanent snow etc. which although devoid of commonly perceived forest (tree cover) are nonetheless considered an integral part of a larger forest eco-system with an unique floral and fauna biodiversity. The enlarged concept of managing the forest as ecosystem led the department to revise the estimate of forest area to the currently depicted figures. Supreme Court of India gave its historical judgment in 1996 which defines ‘forest’ as follows: Kindly see Para A, B & C) of this judgment. It was briefed to the learnt judge but she overlooked it, alleged falsely on non-forest activities committed by Sikhs in building the Gurudwara. Now please read Para (C), whether this Para is applicable out of forest? When tree growth is not possible at this land, how could Sikh community be accused of committing non-forestry activities?
(WP-C 202/ 1995 with 171 of 1996, Annexure 1, dated 12-12-96 in the case TN Godavernam V/s Union of India)
It has emerged at the hearing that there is a mis-conception in certain queries about the true scope of the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 (for short “the Act) and the meaning of the word “forest” used therein. “The word “forest” must be understood according to its dictionary meaning.”
The Oxford Dictionary defines forest as a clump of trees (Tree canopy) Sikkim, whose forest cover is 44.37% of its total geographical area, the 40% out of one hectare of its land, must be covered with trees.
The second condition laid down by hon’ble Supreme Court is to have any govt record means a revenue recipt on forestry.
Sikkim forest department doesn’t fulfill any of these conditions, hence the land at the shore of Guru Daang Maar Lake can’t be called Forest land.
Every Buddhism follower make small stones like this on shore of Lakes & stony river banks.
Stacking stones in this way is called “Cairn” it is ancient human practice mainly found in mountain region, some are seen in Europe and mostly in Himalayas. Commonly used to indicate trails in Himalayas since trees are found scarcely and may be by voluntarily 385 by travelers. Some stack them for good luck homage to the Mountain Spirit as (mentioned by in internet by a traveler).
In Tibet and other places in Asia, they stack rocks as offerings at sacred places. It is a wild guess but they are probably stone stupas, but nowadays they have become mere symbols of art and fashion. A stupa though small or made up of mud or stone is worthy of respect and honor, Buddhists take care not to step on them or spit near them.
The Spiritual Meaning of Stacked Rocks: Stacking rocks can be a form of art, but it can also be a way to connect with nature and find spiritual meaning. They can be found everywhere and are a common sight. However, rocks have different meanings to different cultures. For example, stacked rocks are used as a way to mark trails and signify sacred places. Stacked rocks, for example, have spiritual meaning to some cultures. They believe that the rocks have healing properties and can be used to communicate with the spirits. Rocks have been used as symbols of stability for centuries. Many people continue to use rocks as symbols of stability in their personal lives. When life feels unstable, people often turn to the symbolic power of rocks to bring them a sense of grounding and security. To some people, rocks are a source of inspiration and creativity. When you are in need of a creativity boost, stacking rocks may help you get there. Some people believe that the act of stacking rocks is a sign of good luck. They believe that by creating a rock pile, they are inviting good luck into their lives. They believe that the rocks are protecting them from bad luck, and if a rock breaks or falls, it is not considered to be an indicator that you may experience hardships in some aspect of your life. They believe that the rocks are protecting them from bad luck, and if a rock breaks or falls, it is not considered to be an indicator that you may experience hardships in some aspect of your life.
In brief, my views on judgment upon Guru Daang Maar by Sikkim Court appears to me as Reading this decision, it seems as if the Advocate General Sikkim has dictated it and the judge has heard it and written. Once again injustice to Sikhs in Sikkim High Court is done, refusal to listen to the arguments of Sikhs on Gurudwara Guru Dang Mar case. It was done, even after giving clean chit to the government officials for desecrating the Gurudwara and Guru Granth Sahib, the Gurudwara is refused to be given to the Sikhs.
In the true sense, the Sikh community has lost this case because the judge has not done justice, information from the court on Forests. Is surrounded by questions, plaintiff no. 2 when told the court that the area of Guru Dang Mar Lake is not forest department land, and that the order of the Honorable Supreme Court has also come in December 1996 on which two conditions have to be met before declaring any land as forest land. Must have:
(1) Any revenue record document of this land should be shown,
(2) There should be tree canopy with dense shade on this land. When this land did not fulfill even one of the two conditions of the forest department, then how was this land accepted as forest land by this court? And the decision given on this makes it even more ridiculous when there are no trees on this land. How is it possible to declare this barren land at an altitude of 18000 feet as forest land and to declare that this land is in violation of the Forest Act 1980 as no permission was taken by the Sikhs for ‘non-forestry activities’ on the forest land? It is possible? Describing this land as ‘reserved forest’ can only is a mockery of the Forest Act.
I filed RTI’s with Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, its map publication department at Kaulagarh in Dehra Dun, At Bhuvneshwar which was earlier HO of Forest Department Sikkim, It directed me to contact Integral Research Office (IRO) Kolkata, All these offices could never reveal status of land at the shore of Guru Daang Maar Lake as they wanted to save their colleagues in Sikkim on giving false ownership statement as Reseved forest in absence of trees.
I had filed IA 21 on the forest, which was refused to be heard by this court, this judge did not listen to me on the forest, and today this ridiculous decision is in front of me. Questions have also been raised regarding the safety of the fauna and flowers), whereas various atlases of the Government of Sikkim show neither the existence of wild animals in this area nor any vegetation like flowers etc. growing in this area, but this court has but no permission was given to hold any hearing! I was not provided any opportunity to speak or present evidence on this.
In this judgment, the judge, the Government of Sikkim and another of its government organizations, who have been presented before us as respondent no. 4, is actually an MLA from the reserved constituency of North Sikkim. For this, I had also proved on 4th Sep. 2023 under Article 12 in “Synopsis of Arguments” but this was also ignored. They took Guru Granth Sahib out of Gurudwara Dang Mar in August 2017 and kept it at a distance of 90 Kms by road. Left unclaimed on the shore! This defendant was given favoritism by acquitting him of the charges, he was given the benefit that when he took it, Gurudwara Chungthang refused to take it. So they kept it outside the Gurudwara.
The question arises that from the Gurudwara Does taking out the Guru Granth Sahib from the Gurudwara by these Buddhists not come under the category of crime? Both the Gurudwara and the Guru Granth Sahib have the right of a juristic person, and it should be considered a serious crime but they were given a clean chit.
The documents filed by the Sikkim Government, every page of which expose the conspiracy of the Sikkim Government to take over Gurudwara Guru Dang Mar and demolish it and establish a Buddhist monastery there, but the judicial inquiry sought by me has not been carried out. Rejected, why?
Based on the bundle of lies (Reply by Respondent no-1 on 06/10/18) the Sikkim government snatched away Gurudwara Guru Dang, against which we were demanding a court inquiry since 2018, which was our right. Our demand was not accepted but by taking the Advocate General’s opinion on this bundle of lies, the Sikkim High Court turned justice into injustice.
Within a year of my impleadment as a party in this case, we submitted three very important applications related to this case, one of which, number 21, was refused to be heard outright, and the other, number 22, was disposed of without even hearing or debate. Given that, while in the first paragraph of this application to the demand for a judicial inquiry against this bundle of lies was reiterated, in the third application the judge made reference to it but set it aside without any debate. Thus, in the same year, another historical Gurudwara of the Sikhs was snatched away under the pretext of court justice! In the month of May this year, the Supreme Court also played the same drama on the Mangu Math of Puri when the case was dismissed without even hearing the intervention application of the Sikhs.
It is our misfortune that our leaders made this ungrateful country the home of the Sikhs?
Ajmer Singh Randhawa
Eye witness account of a retired Gazetted Western Railway Officer Giani Brahma Singh ji Brahma who visited on a pilgrimage to Gurudwara Guru Daang Maar and Chungthang respectively. He penned down whatever he witnessed, it was published by Guru Nanak Mission, Patiala in 1986 in a booklet. I have original copy with me. He belonged to Distt Ajmer in Rajsthan and honored by Hon’ble Dalai Lama too. Its pasted below to aware my readers;
Guru Nanak Dev ji and Chungthang
—–Giani Brahma Singh ji Brahma
Ajmer (Rajsthan),
My memory hints back to nearly a distance of two decades when during a formal discussion amongst a group of friends, I could gather that there was some historical site in the deep dales of the perennially snow shrouded Himalayas in the north of Sikkim associated with the hallowed name of the founder of the Sikh faith Guru Nanak, and his foot-prints, which attract the faith and adoration of the local Buddhist population, young and old alike. Guru Nanak Dev ji is remembered there as Nanak Ghashmi-Rimpoche or Nanak Lama Guru.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji with his life long companion, Bhai Mardana, the Muslim rebeck player and the blissful singer of Guru Nanak’s celestial Gurbani,; is believed to have stopped in the Himalayan region there during one of his four odysseys of the then worshipful places of both the Hindu and Muslim religions in India as well as the Muslim dominated regions of the west Asian countries. The local inhabitants of the area, steeped in the mesh of the interminable wheel of KARMA and Karuna (life actions and submissive poverty) complained to Guru Nanak Dev ji of the failure to exhort the Mother-Earth, despite their available material and physical endeavours, to grow rice which was their staple food. The compassionate One, out of his plenitude of mercy blessed the soil to produce paddy to relieve the suffering of the people.
It’s a matter of great significance and glory that our Sikh defense personal, officers as well as ranks while defending the borders of the motherland have been instrumental in the discovery of many a historical places consecrated during the peregrinations of Guru Nanak Dev ji (1497-1522). And Chungthang, an isolated village of about a hundred hamlets then, was similarly discovered by the border surveillance detachment of the Indian army sometimes during 1960’s.
I could then hardly imagine that one day I would visit the place. This happened on 2nd January of the 1982, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singhji.
My son-in-law, an army Major Mediacl Officer, sheduled for duty in the Nathu-La region of the high Himalayas where even the clouds float much below our habitation, assisted me consort, his mother and family to drive from Gangtok to Chungthang at about 3.00 a.m. to be available for participation in the Gurupurab celebrations.
Gangtok, the beautiful city of the beautiful buxom, pithy and fair mountain people of Sikkim, is perched with fascinating colourful nest-like houses designed to rest one over the other four to five storeys high on the mountain ribs, spaced by autumn resistance cloud-kissing trees. It is linked with a hundred kilometer metalled military managed meandering road with Siliguri Railway station of the South-Eastern Division of the Indian Railways.
The zig-zag road with many a U and blind turns crossing many a hanging bridges, is an adventurous experiment for the new visitor of the area. The road is carved beside the mountain ribs with very tall evergreen Saal, Teak and Pine trees on one side and romantic, rebellious and trubulent steep gradient Teesta River on the other side. The Bus journey keeps at least the old and the weak flirting with death. The entire journey is very dangerous and breathe taking. Any time God forbid if the very conscious driver misses a beat of the pulse, even by a split second, the entire parapherernalia, animate and inanimate is devoured nearly by 300 feet deep ravines for good. But the drivers are very courageous human beings who maneuver their machines on every curve with ingenuity classical for their genre.
We meet on the way practically an endless trek of tourist buses, military convoy vehicles loaded with logistics to maintain the comforts of our Jawans who. Who away from their families, look after the inaccessible recesses of the high Himalayas?
Chungthang is equal distance from Gangtok to its north. The road is gaining its full worthiness gradually with the untiring zeal of the labourers, mostly urchins and women, who trek every morning in the biting sleet, scantly clad and barefooted from their small poorly hutments lined beside the road they are building. They leave in the morning in the whiz of the hymn-printed prayer flags 20 to 30 feet high on the skirts of each village and which are believed to waft the Buddha’s message of peace to the lands the winds blows them to.
Guru Nanak Dev ji, with Bhai Mardana, while returning from Assam planned to reach Gurudumba, a deep perennially frozen lake at the height of 18,000 feet, where his invisible help was sought by the local isolated residents for provision of drinking water, near the border of China.
While crossing over the mountains rough track, Guru Nanak Dev ji passed by Yumthangi, a hot water spring at the height of 17,000 ft. I was told that the Indian tourists frequent this place in summer. The government has provided a small inspection Bungalow for periodical survey of the area.
Onwards Guru Nanak Sahib is said to have encountered a demon who objected to Guru Sahib’s passing through his exclusive principality. Guru ji tried to assure him of the innocence of his mission, but the devil persisted in being unruly. Guru Nanak Dev ji just aimed his walking stick locally named as Parkha or Babe-di-khoondi, at the demon, and, lo, a furious gush of hot air jetted forth from the stick and pushed back the demon dazed jamming him to the mountain side, Guru Nanak Dev ji trekked forward to Chungthang, situated in about 30 acres of plain area sentinelled by high cliffs on three sides.
Guru Sahib after resting a while asked Bhai Mardana to start the kirtan. This again agitated the ego of the demon. In utter disgust and with the sense of vendetta, he hurled a big boulder, measuring about 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet height with a view to smashing Guru Nanak Dev ji and his companion. The stone with its heavy weight stuck deep into the earth. It reminds one of the Wali-Kandhari’s events at Hasan Abdal-Punja Sahib (now in Pakistan).
Taking advantage of the high seat provided by the boulder. Guru Nanak Dev Ji climbed up the roof of the stone and commenced his kirtan there. This attracted a large gathering of the local residents, who Listened Gurbani in rapt silence. The melodious divine songs mellowed the demon as well and in deep contrition he came down and begged pardon for his misdemeanour, miraculously while climbing up the boulder. Guru Sahib’s wooden Kharava cut deep impressions in the stone in the three to four places. This marvalled the local people and added to their devotion manifold.
Later in the memory of this event they raised a small Gumpa or temple of Nanak Lama near the boulder. The present temple is a small two roomed wooden structure perched on the four feet high teak wood pillars for protection against rain water inflow. I was told that one of the rooms houses Guru Nanak Sahib’s picture in front of which a perpetual lamp is lit fed with pure Ghee. In the other, the lama in attendance rests.
While on the mound the residents witnessed Guru Nanak Dev ji enjoying the repast of rice, a very rare commodity then for the people of the village. They complained to Guru Sahib of the non-liability of rice leftover from his meal and it is believed that the present abundance of the quality paddy in the area is Guru’s blessing.
The devotees, Buddhist with deep reverence, place small clay replica of the Stupas in the niches of the stone. There is a constant oozing of transparent water in a chasm about 8”x3” which the residents believe is the flow from a lake by the visitors as a sacrament—Prashad. It is also believed that Nanak Lama’s one sacred book, one overall (chola) and some gold things are safely kept in a cave beneath the stone. The door, which is permanently blocked, will be opened by him only on his reappearance in this world.
Near the present Gurudwara hall about 50 feet by 30 feet, there is a Tiloni wood tree in the shape of reversed ‘L’ which is believed to be Babe-di-khoondi which the Guru stuck on his departure as a momento of his historic visit. The khoondi became a living tree and reminds one of the Babe-di-ber at Sultanpur Lodhi which has grown from Guru Nanak Sahib’s Daatan given to sufi dervish Kharboojey Shah, as a momento before Guru Nanak Dev ji left the place for his first pad yatra in 1497 AD.
Gurudumba Lake is equally a site of great miracle. It is believed that on the request of the local residents to provide them with drinking water round the year. Guru Nanak Dev Ji threw some beads of his rosary on the surface of the frozen lake. Instantly the snow parted and an area of 12 feet by 3 feet of the frozen lake turned into transparent water as a permanent feature. It is believed that the sacred portion has the blessings of imparting fertility and grant of male issue to women who happen to lack these gifts. People, who visit the place, fetch bottles full of the sacred water for such benefits.
Subedar-Major Gian Singh Bhullar, who looked after the area confirmed the event? He also told me that with the help of Major Lakhwant Singh they have erected a Nishan Sahib near the lake and have also placed Guru Nanak Sahib’s photo near the Khalsa flag to keep the memory of this rare event till the consecrated Lake water benefits the devotees and the defenders of the borders of the motherland.
All these miraculous events attracted the devotion of the Sikh defense personal. They gradually managed to acquire some land in the vicinity of the Boulder and raised Gurudwara in 1977. Practically all the officers and jawans in the area congregate to celebrate the Gurpurabs. There is a large gathering especially on Guru Nanak Sahib’s birthday celebrations.
During our visit Subedar-Major Gian Singh Bhullar, an officer of 17 Assam Rifles, with his jawans was looking after the management and construction work of the Gurudwara. He is very sincere and devoted Gursikh and had been kind enough to look after comforts for our night’s stay. This place is a protected area and ordinarily needs regular permit to visit the holy place. However donations and other material help needed for the Gurudwara can reach there for keeping the place grow day by day.
Giani Brahma Singh Ji has clearly written in it. There was a set of two rooms in the Bodh Mandir (Gonfa) of Chungthang in 1992, in which a picture of Guru Nanak was displayed in one of the rooms and the lama of that Gonfa used to worship that photo. There was no photo or statue of Padmasambhava, but this attendant lama never used to sleep or relax in the room where Baba Nanak’s photo was posted. He never rested there, there was a separate room for him to rest and sleep. It is just like no servant sleeps in Baba ji’s retiring room in Gurudwaras worldwide.
Now is a photo of Baba Nanak Ji even today hanged on wall in that room but the Buddhists have definitely placed a statue of Akiloteshwra, a reincarnation of Master Padmasambhava.
Giani Brahma Singh Ji in his article which was published by Guru Nanak Mission Patiala in the form of a booklet, (the original copy of which was also obtained by this servant of Baba Nanak with great difficulty). In this article, Giani ji writes that, in the year 1977 Sikh devotees and military personals used to pay their reverence by keeping a picture beneath a bamboo pole fixed here on every Gurpurab to Guru Nanak ji or on any other special occasion at the Shore of Guru Dangmar Lake. First time Guru Granth Sahib ji was enlightened and gurbani was recited here on 17th May 1979.
All this history was written on a board at Gurdwara Chungthang which is no more, why the Gurudwara management removed it, God forbid but we are sharing the photo of this board and the history written on it with our readers.
In the picture below you can see the Nishan Sahib unfurled on a bamboo pole on the shores of the Lake Guru Daang Maar and the history written on board ahead in this book (pic 093)
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It may also be mentioned here that ‘Subedar Major Gian Singh ji Bhullar had donated Rs. 1,75,000/- as his contribution for the construction of Gurudwara Chungthang and Guru Daang Maar in 1977. The time may be years back and forth but today this amount is more than two crores! It was not funded from any regiment fund.
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It is to bring in the notice of those ignorant who say that Gurdwara Sahib was built by the army?
The army was only custodian, that means as army was deployed in this area, so the army personals took care of it, kept it maintained, performed all religious duties in Gurdwara Sahib. Soldiers and civilians of other faiths also donated, including the local Lepchha people.
The foundation stone of Gurudwara Daang Maar Sahib Ji was laid by the local MLA Mr. Tashatenge Lepchha with his own hands in 1983 and the new building of Gurdwara Sahib Ji was completed in 1987 which was inside the tin sheets. The photograph of Gurdwara Sahib with this tin shed has also been included in the special affidavit filed by me attached with the application in the Sikkim High Court as evidence.
What I experienced comparing India and Pakistan, the judges in Pakistan Supreme Court respect Law and deliver fair justice whereas Indian judges are biased, they do not deliver a fair justice. Most probably influence of Indian govt and politicians affect the decisions. Same is noticed in High Courts where influence of State govt is seen. Judges in old age are more corrupt than newly appointed as they seek post-retirement benefits and not ready to give up the life style, they enjoyed whole life during service.
The Judges in Pakistan are afraid of Allah, they have firm belief that they are answerable in Court of Allah, they don’t want to appear their as a culprit. Indian judges prefer materialistic life.
७० के दशक की बात होगी! मैं एक साइंस ग्रेजुएट हो कर भी टैक्सी व्यवसाय में था! उस समय नौकरियों के लिए कोई कम्पीटिशन नहीं होते थे, पे स्केल बहुत कम थे! आर्मी अफसर बनने के लिए भी १२ पास होना जरूरी था! खैर इस व्यवसाय में भी आम जनता काफी इज़्ज़त देती थी!
एक बार मैं देहरा दून से पांवटा साहिब जा रहा था तो मैंने उस समय निर्माणाधीन शिमला रोड पकड़ ली, बीच में जा कर कार के डिफरेंशल में कोई खराबी आ गयी, जिसकी वजह से कार को वहीँ रोक देना पड़ा! सड़क पर कोई आवागमन नहीं था! अत; मैंने कार को लॉक किया और पैदल ही सेलाकुई की ओर चल पड़ा! बीच में नदी पड़ती है, पानी कम था तो पार जाना मुश्किल न था! वहां से बस पकड़ कर देहरा दून आ गया जहां नया सामान ख़रीदा और घर से खाना आदि खा कर शाम को ही वापिस चल पड़ा!
कार तो जंगल में खड़ी थी, वहां रात को क्या मिलना था ? अगर मिलते तो या तो भूत मिलते या डाकू! मैं इसके लिए अपने को तैयार कर चुका था!
तो रात ढलने से पहले मैं अपनी कार तक पहुँच चुका था! अब रात को तो कार ठीक हो नहीं सकती थी अत; अगली सुबह तक मुझे समय बिताना था! अकेले बाहर घूमना सुरक्षित न था तो कार में ही बैठा रहा, फिर सो गया!
तकरीबन १०-११ बजे मेरी कार के शीशे पर थप-थप हुई, मैंने सर उठा कर देखा तो एक मूंछो वाला, अच्छी कद काठी का इंसान खड़ा था! मैंने उससे कारण पूछा तो उसने मुझसे कार वहां खड़ी होने की वजह पूछी!
मैंने उसे बता दिया कि कार में फ़्ला खराबी थी जो रात को ठीक नहीं हो सकती थी, इसलिए मैं इस को कल ठीक करूँगा!
तो उसने मुझे कहा कि वे मेरी कार को दिन भर से वहां खड़ी देख रहे थे, ठीक क्यों न की?
मैंने जवाब दिया कि सामान लेने शहर (देहरा दून) गया था, वापिस आते आते रात हो गयी थी!
फिर उसने मुझसे पूछा कि खाना खाया कि नहीं?
मैंने जवाब में कहा कि सामान लेने गया था तो शहर में ही खा लिया था!
इस पर उसने मुझे कार से बाहर आने को कहा और बोला कि सामने मेरा घर है, मैं इस गाँव का प्रधान हूँ, तुम्हें मेरे घर खाना खाना होगा! अभी आ जाओ, मेरे होते हुए गाँव में कोई भूखा सोये, ऐसा नहीं हो सकता!
मैंने बहुत ना नुकुर की लेकिन उसके व्यक्तित्व के आगे मैं स्वयं को बौना महसूस कर रहा था!
मैं सर पर साफा बांध कर कार से बाहर आ गया तो वह वहीँ पास में ही खड़ा था, वह मुझे सड़क पार अपने घर की ओर ले गया!
घर क्या था, शायद झोंपड़ी नुमा था लेकिन दालान काफी बड़ा और साफ़ सुथरा था! लालटेन की रौशनी थी! वह, वहां पड़ी कुर्सी पर बैठ गया! इतने में साडी पहने एक नवयौवना वहां आई, मेरे हाथ धुलवाए, साफ़ करने को गमछा दिया और फिर वह चली गयी!
उस व्यक्ति ने मुझे वहीँ दालान में बिछे टाट पर बैठने के लिए कहा!
(देहरा दून में मेरा उठना बैठना फौजी अफसरों के साथ होता था और मैं आफिसर्स मेस में बे-रोक टोक आता जाता रहता था), लेकिन यहाँ टाट पर बैठने में मुझे ना कोई संकोच था ना आपत्ति! अपितु मैं उस व्यक्ति के आतिथ्य से अवश्य प्रभावित था!
कुछ मिनटों में वह नवयौवना एक थाली में रोटी सब्ज़ी आदि लेकर प्रकट हुई, मैंने खाना प्रारंभ किया, वह व्यक्ति वहीँ पास में कुर्सी पर बैठा रहा!
खाना खा कर मैंने उसका धन्यवाद किया तो वह मेरे साथ चल कर सड़क तक आया और मैं अपनी कार में आ कर सो गया!
सुबह उठ कर मैं अपनी कार को ठीक करने में लग पड़ा जो काफी देर बाद ठीक हुई! मैंने सड़क पार उस घर को देखने की कोशिश की लेकिन मुझे कोई घर या गाँव दिखाई नहीं दिया! मैं सोचता रहा कि वह घर कहाँ गया, वह तो कहता था कि इस गाँव का प्रधान है लेकिन यहाँ तो गांव ही नहीं कोई नहीं! जबकि सड़क पार १०-१५ कदम पर ही तो मैंने खाना खाया था! आखिर उस घर का साफ़ सुथरा दालान (आंगन) भी तो था, सब कहाँ गया?
अब तो वह सड़क मुख्य हाई वे बन चुकी है लेकिन मुझे मेरे प्रश्नों का उत्तर कभी नहीं मिला!
मैं आज तक यही सोचता हूँ कि उस व्यक्ति को गाँव का प्रधान नहीं, इस देश का प्रधान मंत्री होना चाहिए था तो इस देश में वह किसी को भूखा नहीं सोने देता, आज जब मोदी को देखता हूँ तो तुलनात्मक रूप से उस छोटे से गाँव का प्रधान आँखों के सामने आ खड़ा होता है !
आशा करता हूँ उस जैसी सोच वाले हज़ारों-लाखों आज भी इस देश में होंगे तभी यह देश चल भी रहा है, नहीं तो भाजपा अब तक इसको रसातल में मिला चुकी होती ! मेरी प्रार्थना है कि वह जहां भी हो, ईश्वर सदैव उसके साथ हों!
Terry Milewski, you’re a journalist and you also write articles on court proceedings? For this you should have been an investigative journalist but you are just like that TV news reporter who has already written the script. You think yourself logical and more intelligent than others.
By naming the 4 Sikh accused of IA 182 as Khalistani, the entire Sikh community was put in the dock. Well, this is not a special thing because we Sikhs are used to of such slandering of facing these allegations, but with my logic, today I will completely expose your intention behind writing this article which was published by @PressProgress, in that you wrote in 2018, these Sikh accused as Khalistani but you called them Khalistani with a mal-intention to defame them and their movement without having any evidence but on the behest of Macdonald-Laurier Institute Ottawa Canada, who hired you to write the article to malign image of Sikhs in Canada and worldwide. This defamation has been made by you in this article. You yourself were amused that what was the purpose of MLI to mention Khalistani to all those accused?
In fact Khalistani Sikhs are freedom fighters not the terrorists, they have a mission to build their own home to avoid further persecution, threat of repeat of genocide and injustice in India which is a daily practice by Govt authorities and its agencies.
If freedom fighters of India were terrorists, you have the liberty to call us with any name you wish but we aren’t terrorists, we don’t terrorize people but we connect them with our mission by our good deeds in the interest of every human being all over the world. If you call us terrorist, it’s like a rose who may be called by any name but it doesn’t stop spreading fragrance in air.
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This article was written in 2018 according to this publication whereas the Air India plane was exploded in June 1985 and the name Khalistan was not so popular then. But Terry Milewski made his valuable contribution in creating an atmosphere of hatred against all Sikhs by linking these Sikh accused with the Khalistan movement. The fight of the Sikhs of India was with the Government of India because the Government of India had sponsored the massacre of Sikhs with the help of government machinery. Earlier Govt of India had invaded the highest Sikh shrine Darbar Sahib in Amritsar Punjab of India a main center of Sikh faith and devotion, which had become the center of anger of the Sikhs by storming and razed it on ground the highest seat of Sikh religion Sri Akal Takhat in June 1984. Even in the white paper released on this military operation on the Sikh religious place Darbar Sahib in Amritsar, the Sikh warriors were called Sikh terrorists but not Khalistani.
The official declaration of Khalistan by the Sikhs was also made on 29 April 1986 by whole Sikh nation in one voice giving their approval at the Akal Takht. The Maharaja of Patiala Captain Amarendra Singh was the first among those who took the oath. Later he became the Chief Minister of Punjab too. No case was registered against him for taking oath of Khalistan as a rebellion against India. So that no one else can also be held accused of being anti-India.
The Sikhs were called Khalistani only after 1986, and that too only to those Sikhs who raised voice for their rights in India, rest of the Sikhs were called patriots, in this way India tried unsuccessfully to divide Sikhs.
But Sikhs didn’t speak in India because the repression cycle was going on in Punjab which lasted almost till 1993. During this time Sikh youths were brutally murdered by the Punjab Police and more than one hundred thousand Sikh youths were brutally killed. There were many villages where no wedding procession took place for the next 25 years because there were no Sikh youths of marriage age visible.
Those farmers who had money, sold their land and sent their children to foreign countries to save lives of their kin from Police persecution and killing in fake encounters. These young men were not very educated, yet they worked very hard and further provided better education to their children who achieved important positions in govt of many nations abroad. They remained attached to their soil, they could never forget the atrocities of the Government of India upon their brothers back in India. The murderers of Sikhs continued to get government protection and promotion to decorate their shoulders whereas Sikhs continued to suffer in the courts. Some brave youths, disregarding the law, also carried out murderous attacks on these anti-Sikh people, those who were caught were punished, but even after completing their awarded punishment by court of law, they were not released till date, against which Canada, America, Germany, England etc. where Sikhs raised their voice against the injustice by the Government of India, they were defamed by calling them Khalistani or anti-national by Indian agencies and paid media. Terry is also one of those who are defaming Sikhs by tagging them as Khalistani to malign their image.
Since the article written in 2018, Terry started his mission against Sikhs, in which he got full support from the Government of India and some Hindu terrorist organizations of India. Even today he is playing a leading role among anti-Sikhs on social site Twitter. In this relevance, I will give more evidence in this article, keep reading ahead.
Now let us talk about the Sikhs accused of blasting Air India plane in mid air at Irish coast in June 1985, were they really Khalistani or to be called misguided Sikhs who took innocent lives only with one intention to avenge from India on organizing Sikh genocide in which more than 30,000 Sikhs were killed all over India. To achieve their mission, they played in hands of Indian agencies who sponsored this heinous crime.
The only convict for this tragedy was, Inderjit Singh Reyat, let us talk first about him. Its total information which is related to the case is seen in a sequence is as below;
Terry I have caught you;
Yes you are lying and misleading your viewers to enact an atmosphere to spread hatred against Sikh community by falsely framing them in IA 182 case.
Inderjit Singh Reyat was charged with perjury in 2006 for repeatedly lying during his testimony at a trial into the bombing deaths of 331 people, convicted of perjury in 2010 for lying to the Court.
Reyat was sentenced on September 19, 2010. He appealed against perjury in Feb. 2011.
Reyat was handed a nine-years in prison for perjury sentenced in 1991, he was convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of two baggage handlers at Narita Airport in Japan. He served 10 years for that crime. He also got five years for another manslaughter charge in Air India bombing for aiding construction of the bomb. Reyat further got nine years for perjury in the court of Duncan, BC in January 2013.
Justice Ian Bruce Josephson didn’t mince words in his verdict.
“Much of his evidence was improbable in the extreme and entirely inconsistent with common sense,” Josephson said.
“When caught in obvious and numerous irrationalities, he would seek refuge in memory loss … his evidence was patently and pathetically fabricated in an attempt to minimize his involvement in his crime to an extreme degree, while refusing to reveal relevant information he clearly possesses.”
And that, for Josephson, made Reyat’s claims of remorse fraudulent.
Reyat was released in 2016.
During an appearance in the trial of this case, Reyat came across two other accused, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajayab Singh Bagdi, Reyat greeted them with folded hands in Sikh tradition. This definitely gives an introduction of mutual acquaintance between them, but Reyat was also accused of misleading the court by lying continuously (nineteen times), for which he got another sentence of 9 years in 2011.
Ripudaman Singh Malik or Ajaib Singh Bagdi had nothing to do with the Khalistan movement, because this movement had not even started in 1985. Another accused who is considered to be the main conspirator or the ring leader, he was chief of Babbar Khalsa, he also had nothing to do with any Khalistani organization.
So on the basis of what information does TERI promote them as Khalistani?
The Reuters also used word “Sikh militants” not the Khalistani on its reporting;
Now let us look at the other aspects of the trial whether the Government of India was really behind blowing its own plane or was it carried out by some retaliatory action by the Sikhs? This analysis is also necessary to clarify the situation.
When this aircraft flight number IA 182, was preparing for its next flight, an Indian embassy official named Surinder Malik arrived suddenly and took his wife and daughter by the hand and deboarded from the plane, on the pretext of preparing for the exam. A Canadian politician of Indian origin named Ujjwal Dosanjh had also got his trip canceled.Why after all?
When Canada’s CSIS (Canadian State Investigative Service) started its investigation, they suspected Indian Embassy officials behind it.(See Para 4 in following letter tabled in Parliament of Canada). On this the investigation was stopped but an officer named Surinder Malik was ordered to leave Canada within just one month. A question was also raised on this in Canada’s House Of Representatives i.e. Parliament, whose copy is given below;
Terry claims that no CSIS agent blamed Indian Intelligence for their hand in Kanishka terror attack whereas all major newspapers and ironically his own former employer CBC disagrees with him. Not sure who looks worse. Please see the photo copies of major newspaper reports as below;
Now considering the facts that,1. Why did Surinder Malik not inform the Air Port Authority if he had got information about bomb in this plane before it took off?2. Surinder Malik only showed interest in saving lives of his wife and daughter, being a high official of an embassy, why did he not make any effort to save lives of other passengers (most of whom were Indians traveling in this plane)?3. Whether the CSIS investigation stopped by the Canadian government just because it should not spoil relations with India, while the comments of CSIS officials are very important, it is mentioned in the letter (see para 4) which was raised in the Parliament of Canada.4. Ujjwal Dosanjh, who is a Canadian politician of Indian origin, is anti-Khalistan, why he remained silent and for what reason he canceled his trip( his every word is in vague, his confession and how he escaped from answering is given below in detail), this very important fact which has never been discussed in public or he is never questioned in any Court.5. If Surinder Malik wasn’t sued in Canada, India should have taken action against him on hiding information of Bomb in its plane if India had no hand in its explosion. By hiding the information, he pushed all passengers into death on mid air.It’s never been reported that a former premier, his wife and three sons narrowly missed being among the victims of Indian plane blasted in mid air over Irish sea in 1985. In his new autobiography, Journey After Midnight: India, Canada and Road Beyond, Ujjal Dosanjh reveals that his family booked flights to India at the end of May 1985, from Vancouver to Delhi via Montreal and London. This was six years before he was elected as NDP MLA for Vancouver-Kensington and 15 years before he became premier of B.C. Out of concerns of safety, Dosanjh states that he wanted to keep the trip secret.“Our tickets were booked on Air India for June 23 via Montreal under the names of U. Singh and R. Kaur to avoid use of ‘Ujjal’ or ‘Dosanjh,’ Dosanjh writes.However the family cancelled their reservation a few days before the departure date. According to Dosanjh, he and his wife Raminder began having “second thoughts” about taking their children to the heat of the plains of northern India”.”It was not just the weather that was on my mind”, he adds. “It was also the security and safety of my family.”So instead, the Dosanjh family spent their holidays driving across Canada.He acknowledges in Journey after midnight that he had been hearing rumors of “various people” urging a boycott of Air India at that time.“I did not particularly like the service aboard Air India, remembering our terrible experience in 1977,” Dosanjh writes. “I had decided to fly Air India solely as a gesture of defiance against the boycotters.”Dosanjh went numb over news of bombing……What he didn’t know was that Burnaby resident Talwinder Singh Parmar and his associates “had warned temple audiences a couple of weeks prior to the bombing not to travel by Air India”.(His statement is contradictory to what he confessed in his book that he had been hearing rumors of “various people” urging a boycott of Air India at that time.) His contradictory statement seems vague as he tried to escape from hiding facts on cancellation of his tickets.Dosanjh declares in his book that he and his wife “went numb” hearing news reports that Air India flight 182 had exploded 30,000 feet in the air on June 23, 1985.“We were sure this was sheer coincidence,” he writes.”Surely the extremists would not have designed their most evil deed around me, a small fry in the scheme of things. Their target was India, the idea of India as pluralistic secular and united. Then again, killing two birds with one stone would not have hurt the effort.”In the book, Dosanjh states that he and his wife never went public about their near-miss, noting that this information was only shared with close friends.Dosanjh lies on his ignorance on having any information to get his tickets cancelled. He said that the rumors were already there to not to travel by Air India and that Dosanjh had said on death of Ripudaman Singh Malik (an accused in Air India Plane blast but acquitted in 2006) in a shootout in Surrey Canada in Nov 1998, a former acquaintance of Malik’s called him (Ripudaman Singh Malik) “a controversial figure”.
“One of the other complicating factors is he made a recent visit to India where he wrote a letter in support of [Prime Minister] Modi and his policies and I think that may have reverberated and had implications within the community,” Dosanjh said in the report.
It seems that Dosanjh was warned by none other than Ripudaman Singh Malik to not to travel by Air India Plane as Dosanjh had acquaintance with him or to say they may be good friends in their life.
Dosanjh also revealed that Tara Singh Hayer, Punjabi language newspaper owner of “Indo-Canadian Times, had given a statement to police about the Air India plot before being murdered in Oct. 1998.
Tara Singh Hayer, a newspaper publisher and moderate Sikh in Surrey, B.C., gives an affidavit to RCMP saying he heard Bagri admit to a friend that he’d been involved in the bombings. RCMP say they would protect Hayer, a known threat to the suspects.
An excerpt from newspaper publisher Tara Singh Hayer’s statement to the RCMP. (CBC)
[But despite the RCMP’s assurances of protection, Hayer is shot dead in Surrey B.C. on Nov. 18, 1998. After his death, his evidence becomes inadmissible.]
“On Jan 26. 2000 A former CSIS agent tells the Globe and Mail that he destroyed 150 hours of taped conversations with Sikh informants rather than turn evidence over to the RCMP. The agent says he feared the Mounties would fail to protect identities of informants”.
It clearly proves that Sikhs came forward to inform whatever information they had on blast and about the accused, they too were shocked and pained but Terry allegedly call them Khalistanis. Khalistani are not terrorists but they are freedom fighters, fighting to liberate their land occupied by India and want to build their own homeland to save their next generations from any genocide planned/executed in future by majority Hindus or the Govt of India as it organized in 1984 to eliminate Sikhs in India Courtesy: https://www.straight.com/news/698841/former-bc-premier-ujjal-dosanjh-reveals-his-family-planned-board-doomed-air-india-flight
These allegations were made directly on India itself, for bombing its own plane, defaming Sikhs and preventing them from establishing base in Canada, it is not a difficult task for Indian security and intelligence agencies to do so. Yes, before 1984, Indira Gandhi also used to get the same work done by these agencies whose official proofs have now been found.
See here;
This is a photograph of an article in Surya magazine in September 1984. It describes how Indira Gandhi used this “third agency” and its agents to kill Sikhs on a large scale in 1984 like an evil chess game to kill Sikhs and Hindus, best kept secret.
In this, the story about a super intelligence agency named ‘Third Agency’ was revealed. It added: “We focus on pre-Blue Star Punjab. The job of the third agency was to mediate and promote murders and executions in the Punjab. The third agency continued to supply deadly weapons to the Golden Temple. The third agency gave permission to blow up 47 railway stations. The third agency incited violence in Punjab. And for their gallant roles, senior officers of the third agency have been rewarded with Police Medals and foreign postings.
May 1985 Magazine Surya on page 42 writes something like this …..
“Mrs. Gandhiji had decided that she had to take up a new role in her life as a protector of Hindus… She had planned that there would be a conflict between Hindus and Sikhs, in which The grand strategy was to first leave the Hindus vulnerable, kill them for a while, let them get angry, get so angry that they would take revenge. Then Hindus and Sikhs will cut throats of each other and then I will say to the Hindus, ‘Look, I can only protect you.
The army’s action to attack the Darbar Sahib, known abroad as the Golden Temple, in June 1984 (Operation Blue Star) was not only to clear the Golden Temple of Sikh terrorists, as was publicized by the Government of India, but also to destroy evidence of third agency involvement.
So it was easy and in Indian interest for these Indian agencies to do so! The Sikh community was on target, no Sikh scholar tried to take the displeasure of the Government of India, but continued to bear the stigma on his own Sikh community, but it was very difficult for me, so when I got direct evidence and I understood the whole game when I saw the articles of a journalist named Terry So I decided to put Terry in the dock. The Government of India is already in the dock against Sikhs.
Now the whole game is to prove the Sikhs settled in foreign countries as Khalistani as anti-national, pressure should be made on the governments of these countries to harass them and if possible some prominent Sikh personalities should also be expelled who should not enter India. be arrested in the act, In this way the demand of Sikhs for their own country should be crushed. The migrant Indian Sikhs who have acquired citizenship in foreign countries should be given mental torture so that they kneel down before the Government of India, thinking that the Government of India which has gone down to the lowest level economically and at this time even Pakistan and Bangladesh She is also showing her index below, wants to maintain her reputation even after spending a huge amount in protest against these Sikhs. While Khalistan is not just a campaign, it has become a reality as well and has achieved immense success in the voting on it, which will prove to be a very important milestone in making Sikhs their own country.
Talwinder Singh Parmar, came to India but was killed here on 15 October 1992 in a fight with the Punjab Police!
Police in India announce they have killed Parmar, 48, in a gun battle in Bombay. (CBC Radio would later report evidence Parmar had been in Indian police custody for some time prior to his death and was interrogated about the Air India bombing.)
But the question arises that when he was wanted in India, what was the need for him to come to India? And on what basis was he given a visa, why was he monitored and why was he killed as soon as he got the chance? All these questions point fingers at the Government of India.
Wasn’t he murdered only to destroy the evidence and was he not given a visa after killing him, to shut his mouth forever? He turned out to be a fool who trusted the Government of India and any of its officers. He was the Mukhi (Chief of Babbar Khalsa and not any special important person associated with Sikh militancy. His murder lifts the veil from all these possibilities.
Ripudaman Singh Malik, another accused in Air India Plane blast case also visited India in 2019. If he was accused for blowing India’s plane, why was he issued a visa and what brought him here when Talwinder Singh Parmar was already killed here and reports revealed he was in custody of police before shoot out? But Malik ignored any threat to his life in India.
He had been called “kaum ka gaddar” (traitor) for having praised Modi, who declared December 26 as ‘Veer Baal Diwas’ as a tribute to martyrdom of Guru Gobind Singh’s sons. Malik was a businessman and founder of the Khalsa Credit Union and Khalsa schools, Malik was among 312 Sikhs living abroad who had been barred from entering India for their alleged anti-India activities. His name was removed from the blacklist in September 2019, following which he visited India in December that year.
By praising Modi, he proved him a nationalist Indian. Later, Malik called “anti-India elements as enemies of Sikhs” on a TV talk show. He said “these people worked on behalf of foreign governments”.
It’s very suspicious of India’s part. Why would a govt invite the person accused of bombing its international plane? Why?
That’s why Terry sir, you just need to have a look at these four Sikh accused,
1- Indrajit Singh Riyat,
2- Talwinder Singh Parmar,
3- Ripudaman Singh Malik, and
4- Ajayb Singh Bagdi
Please provide any evidence of your association or affiliation with the Khalistan movement or the Sikh community on your profile, apologize for defaming Sikhs!Otherwise we will keep on stripping you every now and then.
When I did a deep research on this case, I found that whether the Sikhs had a hand in bombing Air India plane or not, but the Indian intelligence system definitely has a hand behind this conspiracy and these four Sikhs, however, were involved in some reason. From or under any pressure must have agreed to cooperate in carrying out this highly reprehensible act because if an attempt is made to connect the broken links of this case, this is the conclusion that emerges.
The four accused in the Air India plane, even if they were Sikhs and even if they did not intend to kill the passengers, as it turns out from one of their secret conversations, that the bomb was detonated in the air when the plane was late. The plane was supposed to be at Heathrow Airport at the time of the blast in London when it was landed. Unfortunately the plane was tuned into a flying coffin of 331 passengers with 22 crew members on board.
Even if the Sikhs had to avenge from Government of India for the 1984 Sikh massacre, even then the killing of innocent passengers is a stigma and Gurbani also condemns it, it was their terrible mistake. It is written in Guru Granth Sahib that;
“Nirvairan Naal Vair Racavai Har Dargah Oh Harai!!”
That means whoever keeps the enmity with an innocent, he is not praised in any place of worship in the world or in the court of God, he is only condemned, he will be defeated everywhere.
India has done a reprehensible act, Sikhs should refrain from doing reprehensible work too. As per last statement given to RCMP by Tara Singh Hayer in 1995, Surjan Singh Gill was given the responsibility of placing this bomb in the plane, but at the last moment he regained his senses and refused to carry out this task. He could have been killed but it would have exposed the secret, so he was threatened to keep his mouth shut.
Khalistani are those who are ready to sacrifice their lives in fulfilling one of their missions, in true sense they are Sikh freedom fighters, whom the Government of India leaves no stone unturned to declare as terrorists, its only wish is that Sikh youth should be misled on Khalistan movement, not come in and oppose the demand of independent Sikh nation when if it is not so, one should keep his mouth shut but every Sikh has understood that if he wants to live with his head held high, he needs a Sikh nation only. His religious security and freedom in India is in danger, he neither gets justice nor easily gets high position in govt job which is given only to Brahmins. Reservation policy for down trodden (Dalits) is also anti-Sikh. Sikh religion guarantee of equality to every Sikh male or female.
So if India’s freedom fighters were terrorists, then today’s Sikh Khalistanis striving for Khalistan can also be called terrorists, whereas both had and have the same goal, that is to get freedom.
Therefore, being a Sikh, I express my condolences to the family members of all the people killed in the Air India tragedy and while expressing regret on it, I will not hesitate to say that even if they all got away from the law in lack of evidence; they will not get any exemption in the court of God. The punishment that they have escaped in this world, how will they be able to save themselves from the wrath of God? It’s unbelievable that being Sikhs, under any temptation or pressure, they obeyed the agents of the Government of India and carried out this heinous act, so they do not even deserve to be called a Sikh. We Sikhs know how to fight our battles, no need to stoop so low for this.
टैरी, तुम एक पत्रकार हो और तुम अदालती कार्रवाइयों पर लेख भी लिखते हो? इसके लिए तुम्हे खोजी पत्रकार होना चाहिए था लेकिन तुम सिर्फ टी वी के उस खबरची की तरह हो जो पहले से लिखी हुई स्क्रिप्ट पढ़ कर सुना देता है और उसका काम खत्म! लेकिन तुम तो अपने लेख की सत्यता साबित करने के लिए बहस में भी उलझते हो क्योंकि शायद अपने को, तुम स्वयं को तार्किक, और दूसरों की अपेक्षा अधिक बुद्धिमान समझते हो!
अब देखो तुमने एयर इंडिया के IA 182 के बंब धमाके के आरोपी सिखों को खालिस्तानी नाम दे कर, समस्त सिख समुदाय को कटघरे में खड़ा किया! खैर यह कोई विशेष बात नहीं क्योंकि हम सिखों को इन आरोपों को झेलने की आदत पढ़ चुकी है लेकिन अपनी तर्क बुद्धि से मैं तुम्हें आज पूर्णत: अनावृत्त कर दूंगा ! तुम एक बाइक हुए पत्रकार हो, तुम्हारा लेख जो @pressprogress द्वारा छापा गया था, उसमे तुमने इन सिख आरोपियों को खालिस्तानी लिखा लेकिन स्वयं की मर्जी या किसी जानकारी से नहीं अपितु लेख लिखवाने वाले Macdonald-Laurier Institute, ottawa, Canada के कहने से लिखा!
यह बात इस लेख में आपके द्वारा उद्घोषित की गयी है! आप स्वयं आश्चर्य चकित थे कि खालिस्तानी लिखने पर इन मालिकों का उद्देश्य क्या था?
यथा;
यह लेख इस प्रकाशन के अनुसार २०१८ में लिखा गया था जबकि एयर इंडिया के विमान की दुर्घटना १९८५ में हुई थी और तब खालिस्तान का नाम इतना प्रचलित नहीं था! लेकिन टेरी मिलेवस्की ने इन सिख आरोपियों को खालिस्तान आंदोलन से जोड़ कर समस्त सिखों के खिलाफ घृणात्मक माहौल सृजन करने में अपना बहुमूल्य योगदान प्रदान किया! भारत के सिखों की लड़ाई भारत सरकार से थी क्योंकि भारत सरकार ने सिख कत्लेआम को सरकारी तंत्र की सहायता से प्रायोजित किया था! इससे पहले यही भारत सरकार, सिखों के प्रमुख आस्था तथा भक्ति के केंद्र दरबार साहिब अमृतसर, जिसे गोल्डन टैंपल भी कहा जाता है, पर फौजी कार्रवाई करके सिखों के आक्रोश का केंद्र बन चुकी थी!
अमृतसर के सिख धार्मिक स्थल दरबार साहिब पर इस फौजी कार्रवाई पर जारी व्हाइट पेपर में भी सिख योद्धाओं को सिख आतंकवादी कहा गया था, न कि खालिस्तानी!
खालिस्तान की, सिखों द्वारा आधिकारिक घोषणा भी २९ अप्रैल १९८५ को इसी दरबार साहिब में स्थित, सिखों के शीर्ष सिंहासन अकाल तख़्त से सिखों के विशाल समूह ने एक स्वर में की थी और इस की शपथ लेने वालों में से सब से अग्रणीय थे महाराजा पटिआला अमरेंद्र सिंह, जो बाद में पंजाब के मुख्य मंत्री भी बने! उन पर खालिस्तान की शपथ लेने या भारत से विद्रोह का कोई मुकदद्मा दर्ज़ नहीं हुआ! जिससे किसी और पर भी भारत विरोधी होने का आरोप नहीं लग सकता!
तो खालिस्तानी सिर्फ १९८६ के बाद ही सिखों को कहा गया, वह भी केवल उन्हीं सिखों को जो भारत में अपने अधिकारों के लिए आवाज़ उठाते थे, बाकी के सिखों को देश भक्त कहा गया, इस तरह सिखों को भारत द्वारा विभाजित करने की नाकाम कोशिश की गई!
लेकिन सिख भारत में तो नहीं बोले क्योंकि पंजाब में दमन चक्र जारी था जो लगभग १९९३ तक चला! इस दौरान सिख युवकों की पंजाब पुलिस द्वारा क्रूरतम तरीके से नृशंस हत्याएं की गईं और एक लाख से ज्यादा सिख युवक कत्ल कर दिए गए! कई गाँव तो ऐसे थे जहां अगले २५ साल तक कोई बारात नहीं चढ़ी क्योंकि सिख युवक थे ही नहीं!
जो किसान पैसे वाले थे, उन्होंने अपने बच्चों को, अपनी जमीन बेच कर विदेशों में भेज दिया जिससे उनकी जान बच सके! ये युवक अधिक पढ़े लिखे नहीं थे, फिर भी इन्होने बहुत मेहनत की और आगे अपने बच्चों को बेहतर शिक्षा दिलवाई और जिन्होंने महत्वपूर्ण पदों को हासिल किया! लेकिन वे अपनी मिटटी से जुड़े रहे, वे भारत सरकार के जुल्मों को नहीं भूले! इधर भारत में सिखों पर अघोषित कार्रवाइयां चलती रहीं! सिखों के कातिलों को सरकारी सुरक्षा मिलती रही और सिख अदालतों में धक्के खाते रहे! कुछ बहादुर युवकों ने कानून की परवाह न करके इन सिख विरोधी लोगों पर कातिलाना हमले भी किये, जो पकडे गए उन को सजाएँ हुईं लेकिन सज़ाएं पूरी होने पर भी उन्हें आज तक रिहा नहीं किया गया जिसके विरोध में कनाडा, अमेरिका, जर्मनी, इंग्लैंड आदि देशों में सिखों ने भारत सरकार के जुल्मों के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाई तो उन्हें खालिस्तानी या देश विरोधी कह कर बदनाम किया गया! टेरीभीउन्हींमेंसेएकहैंजोसिखोंकोखालिस्तानीटैगलगाकरबदनामकररहेहैं!
तो २०१८ में लिखे लेख से टेर्री ने सिख विरोध में अपना एक मिशन शुरू किया जिसमें उसे भारत सरकार तथा भारत के कतिपय हिन्दू आतंकी संगठनों से भरपूर सहयोग मिला! आज भी यह टवीटर पर सिख विरोधियों में अग्रणीय भूमिका निभा रहा है, इस पर, इसी लेख में और प्रमाण भी दूंगा!
अब हम एयर इंडिया के विमान में विस्फोट के आरोपी सिखों पर बात करते हैं की क्या वे वास्तव में खालिस्तानी थे?
सबसे पहले इसके लिए एकमात्र सज़ायाफ्ता इंद्रजीत सिंह रियात पर बात करते हैं! इसकी कुल जानकारी जो केस से संबंधित है, को एक क्रम से देखते हैं;
टेरी मैंने तुम्हें पकड़ लिया है।
हां, आप झूठ बोल रहे हैं और अपने दर्शकों को आई ए 182 मामले में झूठा फंसाकर सिख समुदाय के खिलाफ नफरत फैलाने का माहौल बनाने के लिए गुमराह कर रहे हैं।
बम विस्फोट में 331 लोगों की मौत के मामले में अपनी गवाही के दौरान बार-बार झूठ बोलने के लिए इंद्रजीत सिंह रेयात पर 2006 में झूठी गवाही देने का आरोप लगाया गया था, 2010 में अदालत में झूठ बोलने के लिए उन्हें झूठी गवाही का दोषी ठहराया गया था।
रेयात को 19 सितंबर, 2010 को सजा सुनाई गई थी।
उन्होंने फरवरी 2011 में झूठी गवाही के खिलाफ अपील की! रेयात को 1991 में झूठी गवाही देने के लिए नौ साल की जेल की सज़ा सुनाई गई थी, उसे जापान के नारिता हवाई अड्डे पर सामान ले जाने वाले दो कर्मियों की मौत के मामले में हत्या का दोषी ठहराया गया था। उस अपराध के लिए उन्होंने 10 साल की सजा काट ली थी । उन्हें एयर इंडिया बम विस्फोट में एक और हत्या के आरोप में भी पांच साल की सजा मिली। रेयात को झूठी गवाही के लिए नौ साल की सजा मिली। जनवरी 2013 में डंकन, बीसी की अदालत में,न्यायमूर्ति इयान ब्रूस जोसेफसन ने अपने फैसले में शब्दों में कोई कमी नहीं की। जोसेफसन ने कहा, “उनके अधिकांश साक्ष्य अत्यधिक रूप से असंभव थे और सामान्य ज्ञान के साथ पूरी तरह से असंगत थे।” “जब वह स्पष्ट और असंख्य अतार्किकताओं में फंस जाता था, तो वह स्मृति हानि की शरण लेता था… उसके अपराध में उसकी भागीदारी को अत्यधिक हद तक कम करने के प्रयास में उसके साक्ष्य स्पष्ट रूप से और दयनीय रूप से गढ़े गए थे, जबकि वह स्पष्ट रूप से मौजूद प्रासंगिक जानकारी को प्रकट करने से इनकार कर रहा था ।” और इसने, जोसेफसन के लिए, रेयात के पश्चाताप के दावों को कपटपूर्ण बना दिया।आपको जज द्वारा दिए गए फैसले को पढ़ने की जरूरत है। इस मुकदद्मे की सुनवाई में एक पेशी के दौरान रियात का सामना, अन्य दो आरोपियों रिपुदमन सिंह मलिक एवं अजायब सिंह बागड़ी से हुआ, रियात ने दोनों हाथ जोड़कर सिख रीति से उनका अभिवादन किया! इससे उनके बीच की परस्पर जान-पहचान का परिचय अवश्य मिलता है लेकिन रियात पर यह आरोप भी लगा कि वह लगातार झूठ बोल कर (उन्नीस बार) अदालत को गुमराह करता रहा है जिस के लिए उसको २०११ में ९ साल की एक और सज़ा मिली! रिपुदमन सिंह मलिक या अजायब सिंह बागड़ी का खालिस्तान आंदोलन से कुछ भी लेना देना नहीं था, क्योंकि १९८५ में यह आंदोलन अभी शुरू भी नहीं हुआ था! एक अन्य आरोपी जिसको मुख्य षड्यंत्रकारी माना जाता है, वह भी बब्बर खालसा का मुखी था, उसका भी किसी खालिस्तानी संगठन से कुछ लेना देना नहीं था! तो टैरी किस जानकारी के आधार पर इनको खालिस्तानी प्रचारित करता है? अब हम इस मुकदद्मे के अन्य पहलुओं पर गौर करते हैं कि क्या वाक़ई इन बंब विस्फोटों के पीछे भारत सरकार का खुद का हाथ था या इसे सिखों द्वारा किसी बदले की कार्रवाई से अंजाम दिया गया? स्थिति स्पष्ट करने के लिए यह विश्लेषण भी अति आवश्यक है! जब यह विमान उड़ान संख्या IA १८२, अपनी अगली उड़ान के लिए तैयारी कर रहा था तो सुरिंदर मलिक नामक भारीतय दूतावास का एक अधिकारी आया और अपनी पत्नी तथा बेटी को हाथ पकड़ कर जहाज़ से उतार दिया, बहाना परीक्षा की तैयारी का बताया गया! उज्जवल दोसांझ नाम के भारतीय मूल एक कनाडाई राजनीतिज्ञ ने भी अपनी यात्रा कैंसिल करवा दी थी!आखिर क्यों?
जब कनाडा की CSIS (कनाडा स्टेट इन्वेस्टीगेशन एजेंसी) ने अपनी जांच शुरू की तो उन्होंने इसके पीछे भारतीय दूतावास के अधिकारीयों का शक हुआ! इस पर यह जांच रोक दी गई लेकिन सुरिंदर मलिक नाम के अधिकारी सिर्फ एक माह के भीतर ही कनाडा छोड़ने का आदेश दे दिया गया! इस पर कनाडा के House Of Representatives अर्थात पार्लियामेंट में भी प्रश्न उठाया गया जिस की प्रतिलिपि नीचे दी गई है;
अब इन तथ्यों को देखते हुए कि,
1- सुरिंदर मलिक द्वारा एयर पोर्ट अधिकारीयों को सूचना क्यों नहीं दी गई यदि उन्हें इस विमान में बंब होने की जानकारी मिल गई थी?
2- सुरिंदर मलिक ने सिर्फ अपनी पत्नी व् बेटी को ही बचाने में दिलचस्पी दिखाई, एक दूतावास के उच्च अधिकारी होते हुए, उन्होंने अन्य भारतीय यात्रियों को(इस विमान में यात्रा करने वाले अधिकांश भारतीय ही थे) बचाने का कोई प्रयत्न क्यों नहीं किया?
3- CSIS की जांच को कनाडा सरकार द्वारा भारत से रिश्ते न बिगड़ें, सिर्फ इसी वजह से क्यों रुकवा दी गई जबकि CSIS के अधिकारीयों की टिप्पणी अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण है, यह उस पत्र में उल्लिखित है (पैरा ४ देखें)जिसे कनाडा की पार्लियामेंट में उठाया गया था!
4- उज्ज्वल दोसांझ जो भारतीय मूल का एक कनाडाई राजनीतिज्ञ है, खालिस्तान विरोधी है, वह भी क्यों खामोश रहा और उसने किस कारण से अपनी यात्रा कैंसिल करवाई, यह अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण तथ्य जिस पर कभी कोई चर्चा नहीं की गई!
यह सूर्या पत्रिका के सितंबर 1984 के एक लेख की तस्वीर है। इसमें बताया गया है कि कैसे इंदिरा गांधी ने 1984 में सिखों और हिंदुओं को मारने के लिए एक दुष्ट शतरंज के खेल की तरह बड़े पैमाने पर सिखों को मारने के लिए इसे “तीसरी एजेंसी” और उसके एजेंटों को सबसे गुप्त रखा था। इसमें ‘थर्ड एजेंसी’ नामक एक सुपर इंटेलिजेंस एजेंसी के बारे में कहानी सामने आई। इसमें कहा गया है: “हम प्री-ब्लू स्टार पंजाब पर ध्यान केंद्रित करते हैं। तीसरी एजेंसी का काम पंजाब में हत्याओं और हत्याओं को मध्यस्थ बनाना और बढ़ावा देना था। तीसरी एजेंसी ने स्वर्ण मंदिर में घातक हथियारों की आपूर्ति जारी रखी। तीसरी एजेंसी ने 47 रेलवे स्टेशनों को उड़ाने की अनुमति दी। तीसरी एजेंसी ने पंजाब में हिंसा भड़काई. और उनकी वीरतापूर्ण भूमिकाओं के लिए, तीसरी एजेंसी के वरिष्ठ अधिकारियों को पुलिस पदक और पुरस्कार स्वरूप विदेशी पोस्टिंग से पुरस्कृत किया गया है।” मई 1985 पत्रिका सूर्या पृष्ठ 42 पर कुछ इस प्रकार लिखती है “श्रीमती” गांधीजी ने निर्णय लिया था कि उन्हें अपने जीवन में हिंदुओं के रक्षक की नई भूमिका निभानी है… उसने योजना बनाई थी कि हिंदुओं और सिखों के बीच संघर्ष होगा, जिसमें बड़ी रणनीति यह थी कि हिंदुओं को पहले असुरक्षित छोड़ दिया जाएगा, उन्हें थोड़ी देर के लिए मार दिया जाएगा, उन्हें क्रोधित होने दिया जाएगा, इतना क्रोधित किया जाएगा कि वे बदला लेंगे . फिर हिंदू और सिख एक-दूसरे के गले उतरेंगे। और फिर मैं हिंदुओं से कहूँगी कि, ‘देखो, केवल मैं ही तुम्हारी रक्षा कर सकती हूं।’
जून 1984 में दरबार साहिब, जिसे विदेश में स्वर्ण मंदिर के नाम से जाना जाता है, पर हमला करने के लिए सेना की कार्रवाई, (ऑपरेशन ब्लू स्टार) न केवल सिख आतंकवादियों से स्वर्ण मंदिर को साफ करने के लिए की गई थी, जैसा कि भारत सरकार द्वारा प्रचारित किया गया था, बल्कि तीसरी एजेंसी की संलिप्तता के सबूतों को नष्ट करने के लिए भी किया गया था।
तो इन भारतीय एजेंसियों के लिए ऐसा करना आसान और भारतीय हित में था! सिख समुदाय निशाने पर था, किसी सिख विद्वान ने भारत सरकार की नाराजगी लेने की कोशिश न की अपितु अपने ही सिख समुदाय पर लगे बदनुमा दाग को सहते रहे लेकिन मेरे लिए यह अत्यंत कठिन था, अत: जब मुझे प्रत्यक्ष प्रमाण मिले और टैरी नामक पत्रकार के लेखों को देखा तो मुझे सारा खेल समझ आ गया, अत: मैंने टैरी को कटघरे में खड़ा करने का निश्चय कर लिया! भारत सरकार तो सिखों के खिलाफ पहले से ही कटघरे में है!
अब कुल खेल यह है कि विदेशों में बसे सिखों को खालिस्तानी कह कर देश विरोधी साबित किया जाए, इन देशों की सरकारों पर इन्हें प्रताड़ित करने के लिए दबाव बनाया जाये और हो सके तो कुछ प्रमुख सिख हस्तियों को निष्कासित भी करवाया जाये जिन्हें भारत में प्रवेश करते ही गिरफ्तार कर लिया जाए, इस तरह सिखों के इस अपने देश की मांग को कुचल दिया जाए! प्रवासित भारतीय सिखों द्वारा जो विदेशोंमें नागरिकता हासिल कर चुके हैं, को मानसिक प्रताड़ना दी जाए जिससे वे भारत सरकार के आगे घुटने टेक दें, यही सोच कर भारत सरकार जो आर्थिक स्तर पर अत्यंत नीचे जा चुकी है और इस समय पाकिस्तान तथा बांग्ला देश से भी भी नीचे अपना सूचकांक दिखा रही है, इन सिखों के विरोध में एक बड़ी रकम खर्च कर के भी अपनी साख बनाये रखना चाहती है जबकि खालिस्तान अब एक सिर्फ मुहीम ही नहीं, सच्चाई भी बन चूका है और इस पर हुए वोटिंग में अपार सफलता हासिल कर चूका है जो सिखों के अपने देश को बनाने में अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण मील पत्थर साबित होगा!
तलविंदर सिंह परमार, भारत आया लेकिन यहाँ पंजाब पुलिस से मुकाबले में १५ अक्टूबर १९९२ को मारा गया! लेकिन सवाल यह पैदा होता है कि जब वह भारत में वांटेड था तो उसको भारत आने की जरूरत ही क्या थी? और उसको वीसा किस आधार पर दिया गया, उसकी निगरानी क्यों की गई और मौका मिलते ही उसकी हत्या क्यों की गई? ये सब सवाल भारत सरकार पर ऊँगली उठाते हैं!
क्या उसकी हत्या सबूत मिटाने के लिए ही तो नहीं की गई थी और क्या उसकी हत्या करने, उस का मुंह सदा के लिए बंद कर देने के पीछे उसको वीसा नहीं दिया गया? वह मूर्ख निकला जो भारत सरकार तथा इसके किसी भी अधिकारी पर विश्वास कर बैठा! वह बब्बर खालसा का मुखी था न कि किसी खालिस्तान संगठन से जुड़ा हुआ कोई विशेष महत्वपूर्ण व्यक्ति!
उसका कत्ल इन सभी संभावनाओं पर से पर्दा उठाता है!
इसलिए टैरी महोदय आप जरा इन चारों सिख आरोपियों के,
1- इंद्रजीत सिंह रियात,
2- तलविंदर सिंह परमार,
3- रिपुदमन सिंह मलिक, तथा
4- अजायब सिंह बागड़ी
खालिस्तान आंदोलन से जुड़ने या जुड़े होने का कोई सबूत प्रदान करें या अपनी प्रोफ़ाइल पर सिख समुदाय से, सिखों को बदनाम करने पर क्षमा याचना करें! अन्यथा हम आपको यदा-कदा नंगा करते ही रहेंगे!
मैंने इस केस पर जब गहन स्टडी की तो पाया कि भले ही इस विमान को बंब से उड़ाने में सिखों का हाथ रहा हो या न, लेकिन इस षड्यंत्र के पीछे भारतीय ख़ुफ़िया तंत्र का हाथ जरूर है और ये चारों सिख, कैसे भी, किन्हीं कारणों से या किसी भी दबाव के अंतर्गत इस अत्यंत निंदनीय कार्य को अंजाम देने में सहयोग करने को तैयार हो गए होंगे क्योंकि इस केस की टूटी हुई कड़ियों को यदि जोड़ने की कोशिश की जाए तो यही निष्कर्ष निकलता है!
मैं आप को उन्हीं दिनों की सत्य घटना सुनाता हूँ, भले ही आज बूढा हो रहा हूँ लेकिन जोश आज भी वही है !
मैं देहरा दून में रहता था ! मेरा टैक्सियों का कारोबार था, उस समय भी मैं टैक्सी यूनियन का सचिव था, अच्छी पहुँच थी और सहर में सम्मान और रुतबा भी कायम था ! ईश्वर से डर कर कहता हूँ कि अपने शहर कि जानी पहचानी हस्ती था!
सन १९८३ कि घटना है, महीना और दिन मुझे याद नहीं क्योंकि डायरी मैंने कभी लिखी नहीं, मेरी याददाश्त ही काफी अच्छी है ! तो रात्रि के समय लगभग ११ बजे मेरा दरवाजा खटकाया गया ! मैंने दरवाज़ा खोला तो तीन व्यक्ति खड़े थे! एक थे श्री देवदत्त जी बाली जो कि आर्य समाज के सचिव थे और शहर के सम्मानजनिक नागरिकों में उनकी गिनती होती थी, दुसरे को मैंने देखा जरूर था, लेकिन पहचान नहीं आ रही थी! उसने अपना परिचय दिया कि वह देहरा दून शहर का आर एस एस का प्रधान है! और तीसरा अनजान था!
मैंने उनका स्वागत किया और भीतर बैठने के लिए कहा लेकिन वे थोड़े घबराये हुए थे! मेरे जोर देने पर वे बोले कि वे आधी रात को मेरी मदद मांगने आये हैं ! मैंने कहा जी सेवा बताएं, मैं हाज़िर हूँ! तो बाली जी ने कहा कि एक हिन्दू लड़की को यहां का एक बदमाश लड़का जो मुस्लिम है, भगा कर ले गया है, और कि वे उस लड़की को वापस लाना चाहते हैं! मैंने पुछा कि इसमें मैं उनकी क्या मदद कर सकता हूँ? तो उन्होंने कहा कि ये गुप्ता जी हैं, पंजाबी हैं और दिल्ली शाहदरा से आये हैं, इनका घर पिछली गली में है और वह लड़की इनकी बहन है तथा कालेज में लेक्चरार लगी हुई है, इस वक़्त इन्हें आप की सहायता की बहुत आवश्यकता है!
वैसे वे लड़की को वापस ले आये थे और अपने रसूख का इस्तेमाल करते हुए सेशन जज के यहां तलाक़ की अर्जी भी लगा दी थी!
फिर उन्होंने ने बताया कि इस वक़्त केस कोर्ट में चल रहा है, हमने अपनी पूरी शक्ति लगा दी है, हमारे पास बन्दों की भी कोई कमी नहीं है, कमी है तो साहस की? हम एस एस पी से भी मिले और पुलिस सुरक्षा की मांग की लेकिन उन्होंने मना कर दिया, यह कह कर कि इससे शहर में दंगा हो सकता है, सांप्रदायिक तनाव उतपन्न होगा, इसलिए पुलिस सामने आकर कोई मदद नहीं कर सकती, परन्तु उन्होंने दो पुलिस वाले दिए हैं जो लड़की को साथ लेकर जायेंगे लेकिन परेशानी यह है कि लड़की को कोर्ट कैसे लेकर जाएँ? वह मुस्लिम लड़का बहुगुणा पार्टी का प्रांतीय सचिव भी है, राजनितिक रसूख वाला है !
समस्या यह है कि हमें आप जैसे हिम्मत और बहादुर व्यक्ति की आवश्यकता है, हम और किसी पर विश्वास नहीं कर सकते ! कृपया एक हिन्दू लड़की की और उसके परिवार की सहायता कीजिये!
अब मेरे पास इंकार की कोई वजह न थी! मैंने कहा ठीक है, मैं ले जाऊँगा लेकिन मुझे एक जगह तुम्हारे बन्दों की जरूरत पड़ेगी जो मुझे कोर्ट के बाहर निकलते वक़्त रास्ता साफ़ दें, मेरी गाडी कोर्ट के बाहर मुख्य सड़क पर मुड़ते हुए रोकी जा सकती है, वह मेरे लिए घातक सिद्ध हो सकता है, बाकी किसी जगह मुझी किसी की भी आवश्यकता नहीं! उन्होंने इसका इंतज़ाम कर दिया!
अब अगले दिन मैं उस लड़की को अपनी गाडी से कोर्ट ले कर गया, ३ फुट वाली किरपान (तलवार) म्यान से बाहर निकाल कर मैंने अपने पास रख ली थी और पुलिस वालों के पास पुरानी मस्कट राइफल थीं जो नजदीकी लड़ाई में किसी काम की न थीं!
मैं सकुशल कोर्ट पहुँच गया ! थोड़ी देर बाद डी ऐे वी कालेज के लड़के हाय हाय करते हुए कोर्ट में आ गए ! उनमें जो प्रमुख थे, वे मेरे सहपाठी रह चुके थे! आते ही उन्होंने मुझसे हाथ मिलाया और पुछा कि रंधावा भाई, यहाँ कैसे? मैंने उन्हें बताया कि मैं क्यों आया था, वे आश्चर्य चकित हुए और जवाब दिया कि वे उस लड़की के विरोध करने के लिए आएं हैं जबकि वे सभी हिन्दू थे!
मैंने उनसे स्थिति स्पष्ट करने के लिए कहा और उन्हें लताड़ा कि हिन्दू होकर भी उस लड़की के विरोध में क्यों आये हैं तो उन्होंने जो उत्तर दिया, मैं सन्न रह गयावे !
उन्होंने ने कहा कि उन्हें हिन्दू लड़की या मुस्लिम लड़के से कुछ नहीं लेने देना, वे तो पार्टी (बहुगुणा जी की पार्टी) से आये हैं, उन्हें पार्टी ने भेजा है, बेग साहब प्रांतीय सचिव हैं, इसलिए उनकी तरफ से हाय हाय करनी है, शोर मचाना है, बाकी हमें क्या !
फिर उन्होंने मुझे कहा कि रंधावा भाई ! जब हम आ ही गए हैं तो हमें दो-चार मिनट नारे लगा लेने दो, हम चले जायेंगे, लेकिन इससे हमारा काम बन जायेगा कि हमने पार्टी द्वारा दिया गया काम कर दिया है! और उन्होंने ऐसा ही किया, अगले दो चार मिनट में ही वे वहां से चले गए!
खैर उन्होंने मेरी बात मान ली और मैं वहां टहलने लगा ! वह मुस्लिम लड़का इस बात से अनजान था कि उसके लड़के वापिस क्यों चले गए ! वह अपने एक साथी के साथ मेरे पास से गुजरा और मुझे सुना कर अपने साथी से बोला कि ;इन हिन्दुओं का क्या, ये साले दो-चार सौ मिल कर भी आ जाएँ टी इनकी माँ ,,, कर रख दूंगा, इन्हें पता नहीं किससे वास्ता पड़ा है ?’
मुझे यह बात बर्दाश्त नही हुई, यह सीधी मुझे सुनाई गयी थी, मैंने इधर उधर देखा तो उसका बाप वहां बैठा हुआ था, वह टिहरी डैम में ठेकेदार था! मैंने उसको कहा कि मियां जी क्या यह आपका बेटा है, उसने हाँ में जवाब दिया तो मैंने उनसे कहा कि इसे संभाल कर रखिये और कि वह मुझे सुना कर और यह कह कर गया है, मुझे नहीं मालूम कि वह हिन्दुओं से कैसे निपटेगा लेकिन गलती से भी मेरी कार पर हाथ न रखदे, मैं वहीँ काट कर फ़ेंक दूंगा! उससे बोल दीजियेगा!
खैर इसके बाद उन्होंने मुझसे उलझने की कोशिश न की! २-४ दिन में ही लड़की का तलाक़ हो गया था! फिर भी आखरी दिन जो मैंने देखा, वह मैं जिंदगी भर नहीं भूल सकता ! इस दिन एक कार और चाइये थे, न ही किसी टैक्सी वाले ने टैक्सी दी, न ही किसी ने अपनी कार, इतना खौफ था उस मुस्लिम युवक का कि इतने बड़े शहर देहरा दून में एक भी हिन्दू में इतना दम नहीं था कि वह इस मुस्लिम युवक के सामने खड़ा भी हो सके?
मैंने अपने एक रिश्ते के भाई को फोन किया और उसकी कार मांगी, उसने कार एक सिख ड्राइवर के साथ भेज दी और तब भी वह सिख ड्राइवर तथा मैं, सिर्फ दो सिख उस लड़की और उसके परिवार को सकुशल निकाल कर ले आये!
तब से वह घर ताला लगा है, उस परिवार ने वह घर सदा के लिए छोड़ दिया था, दुबारा कभी मेरी उनसे मुलाकात नहीं हुई !
आज आर एस एस एक दहशत गर्द पार्टी है लेकिन १९८३ में इसे मेरी आवश्यकता पड़ी जब आज के उत्तराखंड की राजधानी देहरा दून में मुसलमानों के सामने खड़ा होने वाला एक हिन्दू भी नहीं मिला था. जब तक मैं देहरा दून रहा, वह आर एस एस का प्रधान जो मेरी उम्र का ही था, जब भी कहीं मिल जाता था तो मेरे पैर छूता था, यह उसका विनम्रता प्रकट करने का तरीका था, असल में वह भी पंजाबी ही था!
दुर्भाग्य से १९८४ का काण्ड हुआ ! मेरा कोई खास नुक्सान न हुआ था, शहर से बाहर मेरी दो कारों को नुकसान पहुंचा था, जिसकी मैंने ऍफ़ आई आर दर्ज़ नहीं करवाई थी, सह लिया था! इस काण्ड के बाद जब शहर में स्थिति सामान्य हुई तो बाली जी के भाई ने एक दिन मुझे रोक कर कहा कि मुहल्ले के कुछ युवक मेरे घर पर हमला करने की योजना बना रहे थे और उन्होंने ने उन्हें रोका था!
मुझे बहुत गुस्सा आया और मैंने उनसे कहा कि बाली जी, जब तुम्हें एक हिन्दू लड़की को बचाना था तो तुम्हें इस शहर में एक भी बहादुर हिन्दू नहीं मिला था, नपुंसकों का शहर है यह ? उस दिन क्यों कोई सामने नहीं आया था? अब इंदिरा मर गयी तो ये शेर समझ रहे हैं अपने आप को? भेज देते इनको मेरे घर? मैं इन्हें प्रशाद दे कर भेजता, सारी उम्र याद रखते कि रंधावा से पंगा लिया था?
8. ਬਾਬਾ ਗੁਰਦਿੱਤ ਸਿੰਘ, ਨਿਰੰਕਾਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਭਾਰਤ ਸਰਕਾਰ ਨੂੰ, 10 ਜਨਵਰੀ, 1909। 1909 ਦੇ ਐਕਟ VII ਨਾਲ ਸਬੰਧਤ ਕਾਗਜ਼ਾਤ। vol. I. Cf A. H. Bingley, Sikhs (Handbook for the Indian Army), p. 69.
“Whether the washed Kachhera is wet or dry it should be put on. When removing the Kachhera only one leg should be removed and put into the new Kachhera.”(Rehatnama Bhai Chaupa Singh Jee).
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