Mem­bers and lead­ers of Sikh po­lit­i­cal bod­ies -Dal Khalsa and Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal Am­rit­sar were de­tained out­side Dar­bar Sahib, Am­rit­sar, while at­tempt­ing to march to­wards the Am­rit­sar of­fices of the In­di­a’s Se­cret ser­vice agency RAW. A WSN re­port.

Nearly a hun­dred  Dal Khalsa ac­tivists led by Paramjit Singh Mand were protest­ing the ex­tra­ju­di­cial mur­ders of Sikh in­sur­gent Paramjit Singh Pan­jwar in Pak­istan and pro-Sikh free­dom pro­tag­o­nist Hard­eep Singh Ni­j­jar in Canada, al­leg­ing that these were covert acts of the Dirty Tricks De­part­ment of In­di­a’s in­tel­li­gence bod­ies, led by the RAW -Re­search And Analy­sis Wing.

The demon­stra­tors were rais­ing slo­gans in favour of Khal­is­tan and dared the po­lice to kill them too.

“We dare the agency to kill us too”, said the spokesper­son of the Dal Khalsa Paramjit Singh Mand.

His as­so­ci­ates were car­ry­ing plac­ards read­ing, “We are also Khal­is­ta­nis. Kill us too”.  An­other plac­ard read: First Pan­jwar, then Ni­j­jar. Who’s next?”

While In­dia has cho­sen to re­main silent at the killings, Dal Khalsa has cho­sen to em­bar­rass In­dia by in­crim­i­nat­ing up­front its in­tel­li­gence agen­cies in the killings.

Prior to the protest, Dal Khalsa or­gan­ised  a memo­r­ial ser­vice  -Shardan­jali Sam­agam, within Dar­bar Sahib precincts in mem­ory of Cana­dian Sikh ac­tivist Hard­eep Singh Ni­j­jar, who was gunned down by uniden­ti­fied as­sailants out­side Sur­rey Gur­d­wara on June 19. Ar­das was per­formed in his mem­ory and lead­ers of var­i­ous Sikh bod­ies at­tend­ing the cer­e­mony and ac­corded him  the sta­tus of a Sikh mar­tyr.

On be­half of Jathedar Akal Takht, head Granthi Gaini Malkiat Singh pre­sented siropa to Ni­j­jar’s fam­ily. Since the fam­ily is in Canada, the siropa was re­ceived by Dal Khalsa leader Har­cha­ran­jit Singh Dhami.

In­dian Mem­ber Par­lia­ment Sim­ran­jit Singh Mann and Dal Khalsa pres­i­dent Harpal Singh Cheema warned In­dia of se­ri­ous reper­cus­sions should In­dia con­tinue the ex­tra­ju­di­cial killings.

The rep­re­sen­ta­tives of var­i­ous Sikh bod­ies in­clud­ing Dal Khalsa, Mann Dal, Jag­tar Singh Hawara Com­mit­tee, Daljit Singh Bittu Group asked the Cana­dian gov­ern­ment to act fast and ar­rest con­spir­a­tors and killers of Ni­j­jar.

Kan­war Pal Singh said, “We will call upon that in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity to rep­ri­mand In­dian in var­i­ous fo­rums for its transna­tional state ter­ror­ism.”