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 antigravity therapy has also been denied by police officials 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 Director 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
