Delhi Akali Dal chief, Paramjit Singh Sarna met with the Chair­per­son of the Na­tional Com­mis­sion for Mi­nori­ties, Iqbal Singh Lalpura, seek­ing ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion in the bru­tal as­sault on a Sikh youth, Sar­dar Amol Deep Singh, al­legedly by a lo­cal coun­cil­lor’s hus­band in Kan­pur. WSN re­ports.

For no ap­par­ent rhyme or rea­son, Amol Deep Singh be­came a vic­tim of road rage when his car was in­ter­cepted and he was mer­ci­lessly beaten up by the hus­band of a lo­cal Bharatiya Janta Party coun­cil­lor in the city of Kan­pur in the In­dian state of Ut­tar Pradesh.

The vi­o­lent act caused grave in­juries to the young Sikh man, ren­der­ing him nearly blind in one eye and leav­ing him with se­vere in­juries to the head. This heinous act has sparked wide­spread pub­lic out­rage.

Ad­dress­ing the grav­ity of the in­ci­dent, Sarna said, “Such rep­re­hen­si­ble acts of vi­o­lence against our com­mu­nity mem­bers can­not be over­looked. The as­sault on Amol Deep Singh high­lights the chal­lenges Sikhs face in our so­ci­ety. It’s para­mount that jus­tice is served.”

NCM chief Lalpura has given as­sur­ances of treat­ing this mat­ter with the grav­ity it de­mands and ex­pressed his in­ten­tion to li­aise di­rectly with Ut­tar Pradesh’s Di­rec­tor Gen­eral of Po­lice.

Re­port­edly, Iqbal Singh Lalpura has en­sured a prompt and fair in­ves­ti­ga­tion and brought the cul­prits to book. He has also or­dered the Ut­tar Pradesh po­lice to pro­vide a de­tailed com­pli­ance re­port on the progress of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

How­ever, the in­ci­den­t’s po­ten­tial po­lit­i­cal un­der­tones have cre­ated a pal­pa­ble ten­sion, rais­ing con­cerns about the in­ves­ti­ga­tion’s im­par­tial­ity.

Em­pha­siz­ing the im­por­tance of faith in the ju­di­ciary, Paramjit Singh Sarna has re­marked, “It’s cru­cial that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­mains un­bi­ased. Our trust in the ju­di­cial sys­tem is at stake. We an­tic­i­pate a rig­or­ous and un­bi­ased in­quiry, cul­mi­nat­ing in the guilty be­ing held ac­count­able.”

The en­tire Sikh com­mu­nity at large awaits with bated breath, hop­ing for jus­tice for Amol Deep Singh.