India to counter SFJ plaint against PM, Shah before UN rights body

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, April 2

India is trying to counter a complaint against PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah by the banned Sikhs for Justice before the UN-OHCHR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights).

India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva has sensitised the office of the UNHCR about the activities of the organisation whose complaint it has accepted, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at his maiden press meet here today.

‘Ordered killing of sikh farmers’

• The UN-OHCR has accepted a complaint filed by the banned Sikhs for Justice against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah
• They have been accused of ‘directing and ordering the killing, beating, detention, abuse and torture of the protesting Sikh farmers of Punjab’ during the R-Day tractor rally to Red Fort
• The complaint was filed on March 30 on behalf of the surviving family members of Navreet Singh, who was killed on R-Day, and 88 victims who suffered injuries, detentions and charges

The UN-OHCR has accepted a complaint filed against Modi and Shah by SFJ “directing and ordering the killing, beating, detention, abuse and torture of the protesting Sikh farmers of Punjab” during the R-Day tractor rally to Red Fort.

The MEA will try to discourage the UN-OHCR from issuing an “Allegation Letter” to New Delhi, as is being lobbied by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, “General Counsel” to SFJ.