Confessional Statement of Harjinder Singh alias Jinda
(Exhibit : 921)
In the Court of Shri V. L. Ruikar,
Designate Judge, Pune.
I, Harjinder Singh (Jinda) son of S. Gulzar Singh, am a resident of village Gadli, district Amritsar (Punjab).
I and Sukhdev Singh (Sukha) Khalistani, son of S. Mehnga Singh of village.16-FF in Karanpur (Rajasthan) killed tyrant General Arun Kumar Vaidya on August 10, 1986. I was driving black Ind-Suzuki motor cycle. Sukhdev Singh was sitting on the pillion. Sukhdev Singh fired upon Vaidya.
JI and Sukhdev Singh went to the residence of Lt. General Ranjit Singh Dayal to kill him because he too was a major accomplice in storming the holy Darbar Sahib. Then we proceeded towards the residence of Vaidya. He was coming out driving his car. We pursued the tyrant General Vaidya and killed him.
Some days back, J. F. Rebeiro, (the then Director General of Punjab Police), the murderer of Sikhs, visited Bombay. He told the Press that the Police in Punjab had killed the Sikhs in fake encounters; The Police threatened us here that we would be sent to Punjab to be killed in fake encounter and would be announced to have escaped from Police custody. These pet dogs of the State do not understand that the Sikhs are not afraid of death.
That the State is committing atrocities on the Sikhs is evident from the statement of Chaman Lal (an Inspector General of Police on deputation to Punjab) who was ordered by the Punjab Government to terrorize the Sikhs but who refused to comply with those unlawful orders. He publically spoke against the repression let loose by the State. The Press supported the State and condemned the revelations by Chaman Lal. The statements of Rebeiro and Chaman Lal that the State is the terrorist and not the Sikhs.
K.P.S. Gill, (the Director General of Police, Punjab) tried to molest a lady 1.A.S. Officer. When the Police chief resorts to such activates, what would be the behavior of his subordinates? The Government of India has amended the Indian Evidence Act to make confessional statement made before Police Officer admissible evidence in a court of law. The depraved Police Officers like K.P.S. Gill who try to molest women and kill Sikh youths in staged police encounters have been given the status of judicial officers. Atrocities perpetrated on the Sikhs have been covered by the black laws.
The tale of State repression does not end here. The Sikhs are subjected to maltreatment even in the prison lock ups. In Sangrur jail of Punjab, several innocent Sikhs were murdered discriminately in broad day-light by the jail/security officials. Sukhdev Singh and Nirmal Singh (bisco-accused in this case) were kept in fetters for more than two years in the jail and kept in the condemned cells for five months with their hands tied behind their backs day and night. The tortures committed upon them in police custody are indescribable. Balwinder Singh (another co-accused) met the same fate. _Ajmer Singh Pradhan and his brothers were mercilessly murdered by tearing their bodies, limb by limb. The torn pieces were, then, shown by the Police to their father who, too, was tortured and then sent to the prison. Bhai Mathura Singh was murdered in the same manner. Similarly, Bhai Anokh Singh Babbar, General Labh Singh (chief of the Khalistan Commando Force), Bhai Charanjit Singh Talwandi (of the A.I.S.S.F.) and Bhai Gurdev Singh Sattiawali etc. were brutally killed by the security forces in the faked encounters. Their bodies were pierced with hot iron rods, and every limb was broken. Without any reason, whole of the family of Bhaj Nirmal Singh was kept in jail for two and a half years. His sister and her whole family is still in jail. Her two sons had to take up arms to fake revenge, but were shot in fake encounters. Innumerable families have been murdered or are being incarcerated in prisons. This blood-shed of the Sikhs, will one day, finish this repressive regime.
Our struggle is not against any religion or community but is for the righteousness and against repression. This battle of ours will not end with our deaths but will continue even beyond that.
So much, wrongful in the form of extorting money from the Sikhs and killing of Sikhs for money, is being done by the agents of the State in Punjab, in order to defame the militants!
The indescribable atrocities committed upon the Sikhs have resulted in every Sikh having pledged to take revenge.
The State cannot suppress the Sikhs through this repression, but the Sikhs shall retaliate and the State would have to account for its misdeeds. At present, the spirit of vengeance is shouldering in the hearts of the Sikhs, but, one day would take the form of a tempest, uprooting the Tyrant State, and establishing the Khalsa Raj.
The present regime has thrown the Sikh nation into dungeons slavery but the day is not far when the walls of these dungeons will fall. And, then the light of freedom will welcome us. The Kesri (saffron) flag has to flutter with the glory of sovereignty over the ramparts of Delhi’s red fort.
‘Khalistan Zindabad’
(Long Live Khalistan) Sd/—
(Harjiader Singh)
August 14, 1989,
(This is abridged version of Bhai Jinda’s statement, Only the portions relevant for the purpose of highlighting human rights aspect have been included in this version.)
