Washington, DC: Indian police officials are denying Dr. Sohan Singh, a eighty-year-old Sikh leader, proper medical attention. This is despite a high court order instructing the Punjab Home Secretary to have Dr. Singh examined by a team of qualified doctors.
Dr. Singh, who has been in detention for the last six months, has suffered from a low body temperature for the past seven weeks. During his illness, he has not had the benefit of medical attention, and has been kept in solitary confinement from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. In solitary confinement, there are no provisions for an emergency call in case his condition becomes worse. Dr. Singh request for a tilted bed so that he might be able to do anti- gravity therapy, has also been denied by police officials.
“I ask that Dr. Sohan Singh receive proper medical treatment on humanitarian ground,” said Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, President Council of Khalistan. “The Indian government should not stoop so low as to deprive proper medical attention to a sick eighty-year-old man. His ill treatment is a signal call for all Sikhs that Khalistan is the need of the day.” Dr. Singh, who was the former Di- rector of Health Service of Punjab, is a close relative of former Indian Foreign Minister, Swaran Singh. Interestingly, both his sons are high Indian government officials.
“I urge the sons of Dr. Sohan Singh to do some soul-searching,” said Dr. Aulakh. “If the Indian government can treat their father so horribly, is it worth serving the tyrant Indian government? Similarly, ex-minister Swaran Singh should denounce the government’s treatment of his relative. Khalistan is the only solution to the Sikh nation’s crisis.”
Article extracted from this publication >> May 13, 1994
