PC shoe-thrower in Ahmedabad to protest 1984 riots

The Sikh community in Ahmedabad will stage a walk and protest at the Thaltej crossroads here on Sunday. It is for the first time in 29 years that the community has come forward for such a cause. This is part of the nationwide tour to spread awareness among the Sikhs to demand justice for victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. The walk, under the banner of the Sikh Sangat of Ahmedabad, will be led by Jarnail Singh, writer and journalist, who had hurled a shoe at then Union home minister P Chidambaram in 2009. It will begin from the Gurudwara Gobind Dham and culminate at the Thaltej circle.

“I am travelling to various cities of the country, including Pune, Jammu, Mumbai, Kolkata and meeting the Sikh community to mount pressure on the Union government to challenge the acquittal of Sajjan Kumar,” said Singh.

“We demand that the acquittal of Sajjan Kumar should be challenged by the CBI in a higher court.

We are trying to raise awareness among the new generation of the Sikh community about the delay in justice in the anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984,” he added. Singh further stated that the Sikh community had no faith either in the CBI or the Delhi Police and an independent Special Investigation Team (SIT) should be constituted.

“We want a SIT to probe the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, just like there is a SIT to probe the Gujarat riots of 2002. There were four murders in 1992 and there is witness Gurbachan Singh against Sajjan Kumar. But the charge sheet was never produced in court in this case,” alleged Singh.