The Valiant Jaswant Singh Khalra

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Jaswant Singh had thrown down a challenge.” Paramjit’s eyes flash. “KPS came to Amritsar to try to rubbish the claims, saying, ‘These supposedly dead boys are in foreign countries, smuggled out to earn dollars, while the poor police get charged with supposed disappearances.’” In 1995, Khalra disappeared and six police officers were arrested for his kidnap and murder in 2005.

On September 6, 1995, Khalra disappeared and a case of murder, abduction and criminal conspiracy was registered on the complaint of his wife, Paramjit Kaur. On this day in 1995, S. Khalra was abducted from his home in Amritsar, Punjab by plain clothes police officers from the Tarn Taran district. Earlier, when S. Jaswant Singh’s research had uncovered the illegal murder and cremation of thousands of young Sikhs by the Punjab Police, the Superintendant of Police from Tarn Taran, Ajit Sandhu had said “if 25,000 have disappeared, it will be easy to make one more disappear too.” This list contains the information of Sikhs cremated in just two tehsils (An Administrative Division) of Punjab. The Supreme Court of India and the National Human Rights Commission of India has certified the validity of this Data. Speeches: When Jaswant Singh Khalra traveled to Canada to display the proof he had against the Indian Government revealing their hand behind the mass killings of thousands of innocent Sikhs, he delivered many speeches across the nation. One of his most memorable and heart touching speeches consists of this fable: The only actor who recently questioned what it means to embody the Sikh stuggle and focus on its poltics is Deep Sidhu , and consequently, his death is viewed as another state orcastrated poltical murder of a young Sikh who vocalised and raised Sikh consciousness for Khalistan.

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The excitement and buzz about the film raises questions about what Sikhs long for, desire, and expect from a film on Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh’s life. Unfortunately, due to the state of our existence as domesticated citizens, no mainstream film can truly encapsulate and fulfil our desire to see the intimate, world shaping moments that came to shape Shaheed Jaswant Singh’s life and struggle. Ensaaf, “Sardar Jaswant Singh Khalra,” video report, 2006, http://www.ensaaf.org/docs/khalravideo.php (accessed April 13, 2007).

An industry source shared that the makers - RSVP Movies, Abhishek Chaubey and Honey Trehan, have been waiting for censor clearance for the last six months. The position of Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh towards the struggle for Khalistan can be seen woven into his most famous speech . He talks about Shaheedi as the greatest gift that the Guru bestows upon a Sikh and names the structures of the Indian state as being mobilised against our existence. On 11 April 2011, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal filed against the sentence to life imprisonment for the four accused, scathingly criticizing the atrocities committed by Punjab Police during the disturbance period. [19] [1] Legacy [ edit ] Memorial [ edit ] To honour Bhai Jaswant Singh’s legacy is to honour their Shaheedi, which means that the structures that kidnapped, tortured and murdered him must be named. All aspects of Shaheed Bhai Jaswant Singh’s life and praxis must be honoured, including his open demand and mobilisation for Khalistan. The Indian government, the state government of Punjab, and Punjab police have all denied the extent of systematic “disappearances,” extrajudicial executions, and torture that occurred in Punjab during the counterinsurgency, at most admitting to a few errant abuses. Some officials privately justified the violations as necessary to combat the insurgency.He asked how he would know if Piara Singh was there or whether the body was disposed of down a river or into a ditch?” US State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices—1989: India,” p.1389. The Indian government were so scared by this humble man they directly threatened Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra to either stop the great sewa he was doing or else he would also join the long list of the Singhs that had been made to disappear (by the police). Bhai Sahib remained fearless and continued to expose the Indian government.