Jagtar Singh

  Lok Sabha polls 2024 to be test for unprecedented apology by Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal Ground Zero Jagtar Singh Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on December 14 sought apology with folded hands in the Golden Temple (Darbar Sahib) complex on 103 rd anniversary of the now marginalized party with glorious history for the mistakes committed in the past “advertently or inadvertently” with particular reference   to the shocking narrative associated with sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib at Bargari village in 2015. Going by the precedence, the apology has to be sought by presenting oneself without any ‘Ifs and Buts’ at Akal Takht, the supreme Sikh temporal seat representing Sikh sovereignty in front of the Golden Temple. The person seeking pardon either writes to Akal Takht Jathedar listing the misdeed or is summoned to appear and awarded religion punishment (Tankhah). The leaders who have been thus awarded religious punishment include Sant Fateh Sin...

Bundala fake encounter case finality in high court calls for probe in all fake encounte rs Ground Zero Jagtar Singh   More than 41 years after Akhand Kirtani Jatha activist Bhai Kulwant Singh Nagoke from Nagoke group in Amritsar district was shown to have been killed, it has now been proved with finality that the police had been resorting to killings in fake encounter. This calls for broader probe headed by a retired high court judge into what can be termed as strategy of fake encounters to counter militancy in Punjab that was triggered as revenge killings but got transformed as instrument of political struggle for Khalistan. Not that it is for the first time that such a revelation has come out. The main point here is that this is an admission that has come on the record in the Punjab and Haryana Court exposing the dark underbelly of the methods used by the security forces to what is claimed to be the restoration of peace. Of course, police officials have earlier been con...