LUDHIANA: J.S.Mander Judicial Magistrate First Class Ludhiana has issued a warrant of arrest against Bhajan Lal in a complaint filed by a local advocate alleging abatement of crime by the Union Environment Minister D.S.Gill in his complaint under section 115 of the Indian Penal Code quoted the minister in directing the security forces and the general public to kill the Sikh freedom fighters rather than apprehending them and trying them in courts of law.
The Complainant alleged that the ministers statement which was published in the “Tribune” dated August 24 amounted to issuing of impermissible order punishable with death or imprisonment for life or in case the crime not being committed in consequence of the abetment imprisonment for seven years and fine under section 159 IPC.
Three witnesses in addition to the complainant told the court that the Union Ministers statement was too serious to be ignored It was remincient they alleged of the treatment meted out to the Sikhs during the Asian Games in 1982 in a much worse form. B.S.Bindra assisted by G.S.Bal and Harchand Singh Gill Advocates represented the complainant.
They pleaded that the complaint and the statements of the witnesses clearly made out a prime-facie-case against Bhajan Lal.
In his order J.S. Mander observed that looking at the evidence and the allegations in the complaint “I am of the view that the accused be summoned through non-bail-able warrants but keeping judicial restraints in view.
I think ends of justice will be met with the order if the accused is summoned through the bail-able warrants in the sum Rs. 10000 with two assurities of like amount.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 27, 1992
