Jagtar Singh Hawara needs medical care, says Akal Takht Jathedar

Amritsar, Punjab (June 27, 2014): Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh has reportedly urged the Tihar Jail authorities to give medical treatment to Sikh political prisoner Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara as his condition is deteriorating with each passing day.

Bhai Jagtar Singh Hawara [File Photo]

Giani Gurbachan Singh said the authorities should allow him to get medical treatment on humanitarian grounds. He said if this was not possible inside the jail, he should be admitted to hospital.

Jathedar also asked the SGPC to take up the matter with the authorities concerned.

Meanwhile, a Sikh body Dal Khalsa has also written to New Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Najeeb Jung, bringing to his notice the “indifferent attitude” of the Tihar Jail towards Hawara. Party head HS Dhami said since the past one month, Hawara had been complaining of severe pain in his spinal cord and was unable to move.

“The jail authorities have ignored his suffering and have not provided him proper medical treatment,” Dhami alleged.

He said either Jagtar Singh Hawara should be shifted to a hospital or a team of doctors be brought to the jail for his treatment. “Not providing medical treatment to a prisoner is inhuman and violation of the jail manual,” he pointed out.