AISSF announces to file murder case against KPS Gill in wake of Fake Encounters disclosure by SI Surjit Singh

Amritsar (July 11, 2013): All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) has declared to initiate criminal proceedings against former Punjab DGP KPS Gill and Sub Inspector (SI) Surjit Singh for killing innocent Sikhs in “fake encounters” during 1990s.

“Sub Inspector Surjit Singh has publically confessed that on the directions and orders of the then DGP KPS Gill , he had killed several dozen innocent Sikh youths and covered up the killings as “face encounters of unidentified terrorists”.” reads a statement by AISSF.

“It’s a question mark on the India’s claim of equal treatment to all minorities that a police officer is confessing to have killed dozens of Sikhs in the staged encounters at the orders of superiors and yet Government and Judiciary has not taken any action just because the victims are Sikhs” AISSF President Karnail Singh Peermohammad said while talking to Sikh Siyasat News (SSN).

AISSF President stated that a criminal complaint will be filed with the court asking to initiate proceedings against KPS Gill and Surjit Singh under sections 302 for murder and under section 120-B for conspiracy to eliminate Sikhs during 1990s.

Referring to the recent open confession by sub inspector Surjit Singh, Karnail Singh Peermohammad stated that federation’s claim that during 1990s under the command of DGP KPS Gill, Sikh youth was branded as militant and eliminated in extra judicial killing under the disguise of anti terrorism campaign, has proved to be a fact.

AISSF was at the forefront of peaceful struggle for right to self determination and because of that hundreds of Federation activists and high ranking leaders were killed in fake encounters staged under the command of KPS Gill who set the policy of eliminating innocent Sikh youths during 1990s.