Amritpal Singh case: SGPC lawyers in Assam to assist arrested Sikh youth

Amritsar, April 9

A delegation of lawyers sent by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has reached Dibrugarh, Assam, to take up the cases of the youth arrested from Punjab and jailed there.

In the backdrop of the Ajnala incident, the Punjab Police cracked down on pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh and his supporters. Twenty persons were arrested and seven of them sent to the Dibrugarh jail after being booked under the National Security Act (NSA).

The lawyers’ panel, including SGPC member and advocate Bhagwant Singh Sialka, Sandeep (Deep) Singh Sidhu’s brother advocate Mandeep Singh Sidhu and advocate Rohit Sharma, have been entrusted with the task of extending legal aid to them. They will start the requisite legal procedure tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the SGPC is gearing up to initiate legal action against the police personnel and media houses that allegedly “misinterpreted” the flag of Maharaja Ranjit Singh-led Sikh empire as the flag of Khalistan. The issue was prominently taken up by Akal Takht’s officiating Jathedar Giani Harpreet Singh.