Shadow Correspondent
Jammu, Jan 14
It has been three decades, but the Ansari commission report, which was constituted to probe the anti sikh riots of 1989 in Jammu, has been published in which fourteen innocent Sikhs were killed , several injured and property worth crores damaged in arson during the riots.
Balvinder Singh president sikh progressive front S. Surinder s Wazir gen sec S. S Sharanjit Singh Jt Sec along with S. Harmohinder Singh president displaced kashmiri sikh conference , S .T.P Singh president Kashmir sikh society , S Manjit Singh social Activist , Dr Harbans Singh President public social welfare association Baramullah , S . Gagandeep Singh & S. Sukhpreet singh of JK Sikh professionals , kulwant singh Bhatti president national sikh front, S. Mehar Singh president sikh Noujwan Sabha N Nagar Jammu while addressing press conference jointly said that even after the lapse of three decades the community has been kept in dark over the finding of Ansari commission report .
Balvinder Singh said that he had gone through the report which contained adverse finding against the then government as well as some senior police officers and also nominated some organizations which were responsible for the anti sikh riots of 1989, so the government is shying away in publishing its report and making compliance of its recommendations for the reasons best known to those at the helm of affairs.
While expressing solidarity with the families of those who were mercilessly killed by the fundamentalist goons on this day thirty years ago all present said that despite the registration of 61 FIRs in different police stations of Jammu , it is unfortunate that date not a single person has been arrested or prosecuted , despite the identification of some of the killers by various persons as has been stated in their sworn in affidavist before the Ansari commission.
They further said that State Govt. instead of making compliance of Ansari Commission Report released only Rs 1.00 lakh to the NOKs of the deceased person which is a meager amount to be paid for the loss of human life. State also released only 5 to 10% of the loss suffered as a result of looting, destruction and damaged made to 209 shops/khokas and burning of 120 vehicles both in Jammu and Udhampur. Even the loss assessed by concerned authorities has not been paid till date which is a great injustice to the Sikh Community.
They all unanimously stated that as justice has not been done with the families of those massacred in the anti Sikh riots of 1989, so they urged upon the present Govt in Delhi to release additional compensation for those killed in 1989 and also pay 100% loss of their properties damaged and other immoveable assets both in Jammu and Udhampur, actually assessed by the concerned authorities and as has also been recommended by the Justice (retd) MRA Ansari who headed the one man Ansari Commission.
