CHANDIGARH: Justice R.K.Nehru of Punjab and Haryana High Court, last week, issued direction to the Home Secretary, Punjab, to get Sohan Singh, former director of Health, examined by a team of qualified doctors within two days of the receipt of the orders.
In the miscellaneous petition filed by Tewant Singh, son of Sohan Singh, it was alleged that for the last six weeks, the body temporary denial of the people’s democratic right to assemble at a suitable place to register their protest.”
Center of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) General Secretary M.K.Pandhe declared: “We will not take this action of the Government living down-we are going to be more militant.”
The National Platform has called for observance of April 15, the day the GATT is likely to be ratified, as a Black Day.
Copies of the Dunkel proposals would be burnt, demonstrations would be taken out and bandhs would be organized at local levels, the organizers said.
G.S.Grewal with Baljit Kaur Mann and H.S.Grewal, submitted
that no special food was prescribed for the detainee even though it was the minimum requirement. He was being kept in solitary confinement from 6 pm to 6 am and there was no provision for emergency call. for help. The request of the detainee to provide him with a tilted bed so that he might be able to do anti-gravity therapy had also not met with any favorable response the submission said.
The judge has directed that the orders be conveyed to home secretary immediately. The case will come up for further proceedings in April.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 15, 1994
