In a “bet­ter late than never” his­toric judge­ment, judge Ajay Pandey at the Pa­tiala House courts, New Delhi held Yash­pal Singh And Naresh Sher­awat guilty for mas­sacre of Sikhs in No­vem­ber 1984. As soon as they were sen­tenced, they were taken into cus­tody by the po­lice. Both are likely to be given their prison terms on 15 No­vem­ber.

Hardev Singh along with Av­tar Singh was killed in the Mahilpur area whereas the shops of their friends San­gat Singh and Kuldip Singh were set afire. 

Sig­nif­i­cantly jus­tice in this 34 year-old case was pos­si­ble af­ter the in­ter­ven­tion of the DS­GMC, which pur­sued the case in 2015 with the pre­sent gov­ern­ment. Ear­lier on, though Hardev Singh’s brother had brought the case to the no­tice of the Ran­ganath Mishra Com­mis­sion but he was over­awed and threat­ened by the ac­cused. An FIR was reg­is­tered in April 1993 in the case only upon the in­ter­ven­tion of the Jus­tice J. D. N and D. K. Agar­wal com­mit­tee rec­om­men­da­tions. 

It must be nar­rated that jus­tice has been pos­si­ble in the case be­cause the wit­nesses Trilok Singh, San­gat Singh and Kuldip Singh de­posed with­out fear.

DS­GMC pres­i­dent Man­jit Singh GK and gen­eral sec­re­tary Man­jin­der Singh Sirsa, while wel­com­ing the judge­ment have said that there is need to pur­sue many FIRs and the DS­GMC will con­tinue its en­deav­ours in this di­rec­tion. 

Man­jit Singh GK fur­ther said that the prime ac­cused in this case, a Con­gress leader called JP, is still be­yond the clutches of the law and that DS­GMC would ap­peal for his pros­e­cu­tion to a higher court.

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Ad­vo­cate Gur­baksh Singh ap­peared on be­half of the de­ceased Hardev Singh of Mahilpur.

New Delhi, 14 No­vem­ber 2018, WSN News Re­porter