LUDHIANA: Punjab Human Rights Organisations chairman Harinder Singh Khalsa and general secretary D.S.Gill in a joint statement expressed sympathy with the next of-kin of a dozen Hindus killed by unknown gunmen at Gill village near Ludhiana. The PHRO activitis reiterated their resolve to condemn killings of innocents irrespective of the religion of the victims. At the same time, the PHRO warned the police against its practice of arresting Sikh youths, declaring them arbitrarily as involved in the killings and killing them in fake encounters.

Article extracted from this publication >> January 18, 1991