When Sikh militant leader Dr. Sohan Singh was arrested last year from Nepal, the Indian state misled the world by claiming that he had been arrested from Mohali near Chandigarh. Since no case could be made out against the Sikh leader, he was detained under the draconian National Security Act. The Indian state has not cared to explain until today about the exact place of Dr. Sohan Singh’s arrest.

 Daya Singh, on accused in the Kairon murder case, was released from jail last week after he spent 22 years in jail. He was arrested in 1972 from a village in Punjab, according to a media statement he made. He termed the claim of the then inspector General of Punjab police, Ashwani Kumar that the latter had led a team of policemen to arrest him from near the Indo-Nepal border, Ashwani Kumar was then lionized by the Indian media almost in the same way as K.P.S. Gill is being made & hero these days. Kumar has not contradicted Daya Singh’s statement so far.

Senior officers of the Indian Central Agency of Investigation (C.B.1.} claimed that Yakub Abdul Razaq Memon, a Suspect in the Bombay blast case, was arrested from New Delhi railway station on the morning of August 5, 1994. But Yakub informed a Delhi court where he was produced for police remand that he had been in the custody of the Indian authorities since July 28, 1994. The Times of India quoting “informed sources reported that Yakub had really been arrested from “the Indo-Nepal border.”

All the three instances surfaced in one week. There is no doubt about the fact that the Indian authorities conceal the truth and give out fabricated cock and bull stories. These instances alone are sufficient to prove that no statement made by Indian authorities, more so when it pertains to the police, could be relied upon. What is surprising is that most Indian newspapers not only report the police statements uncritically but also make heroes out of ordinary police officers. Lies are projected as truth. The world public opinion is fully aware of the manner in which the Indian propaganda machine had white washed the operation “Bluestar” at Amritsar as a “neat Operation” when, in reality, thousands of Sikhs, including women and children, had been slaughtered by the army. Similarly, in the early days of the Rajiv Gandhi’s rule, he was projected by the Indian media as “Mr. Clean.” Subsequently, it was discovered that he faced the most serious charges of Corruption and in the eyes of the public had become “Mr. Dirty.”

 One obvious inference is that the Indian media unsuspectingly buys the official propaganda and continues with it until it becomes embarrassingly. Unsustainable As for the Indian State, il appears to be perpetually under the spell of Goebles. The whole world has been made to believe that the Sikhs, Muslims and Christians are terrorists and fundamentalist while the Hindus are secular and modern.

A friend who recently came to the U.S.A. had an interesting Antidote to narrate, A few years ago, the government controlled Indian television serialized a film based on Ramayana, It also serialized another film based on the life of Tipu Sultan, The first was made by Brahman and the second by a Muslim producer director, The television made it a point to begin every serial of Tipu Sultan by cautioning the viewers that the Story and the characters of the film are mythical. But no such Caution was considered necessary in the case of the Ramayana, serial.

The whole world knows that Tipu Sultan was a historical character who ruled the southern Indian state of Mysore in the 18th century. As for the Ramayana, as authoritative an organization as the Indian history Congress regards a mere myth. But the state almost convinced the captive Indian viewers that Tipu Sultan was a fictional character and the Ramayana a real one. In the same way it has convinced the public that Dr. Sohan Singh, Yakub and Daya Singh had been arrested from where the police claimed. The Indian state and its agencies are just not interested in facts and reality, Take the manner in which the former Indian President Venkataraman had been condemned merely for writing his memoir sin which he makes some sensible statements about Rajiv Gandhi. The World must understand and live with the fact that the Indian media is a lap day of those in uniform.

Article extracted from this publication >> August 12, 1994