Killing of Sikhs in Pilibhit Jail

Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) finally woke up to its two decade old promise made to compensate the Sikh victims tortured

After 23 Years, SGPC Offers to extend Help to Pilibhit Jail Massacre Victims

May 22, 2017

The SGPC has offered help to family members of 1994 Pilibhit jail massacre victims. In 1994 7 Sikhs were beaten to death by jail staff inside Pilibhit jail and 21 others had suffered serious injuries.

After 25 Years SGPC Gives Rs 1 Lakh Aid to Family members of Pilibhit Fake Encounter Victims

May 20, 2017

As per the media reports the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) here on Friday forwarded cheques of Rs 1 lakh each to the kin of

Pilibhit Custodial Death: Respond By July 7th Allahabad High Court To UP Govt

May 19, 2017

After the Allahabad High Court last year asked the then Uttar Pradesh government to file an explanation as to why the criminal charges against 42 Pilibhit jail

Why Pilibhit Jail massacre cases were withdrawn: Allahabad HC asks UP Govt.

July 15, 2016

Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to explain its decision to withdraw a CB-CID inquiry and cases against the 42 Pilibhit district jail employees, responsible for the 1994 custodial death of seven Sikhs in Pilibhit jail.

1994 Pilibhit Jail massacre: Ready to testify against jail staff, says survivor

May 15, 2016

A Pilibhit jail detainee, who suffered serious injuries during the nightlong torture in November 1994 that left seven Sikh inmates dead, has said he is willing to appear as a witness before any investigating agency or commission against the jail staff to “highlight their brutality”.

Murder of Sikhs in Pilibhit jail: Bir Devinder questions Tarlochan, Ramoowalia’s silence

May 14, 2016

Former Vidhan Sabha deputy speaker Bir Devinder Singh has questioned Union cabinet minister Maneka Gandhi, former chairman of Minorities Commission Tarlochan Singh and UP cabinet minister Balwant Singh Ramoowalia over their silence on the cold-blooded murders of Sikhs in Pilibhit Jail in UP.

Badal Dal meets Rajnath Singh to seek probe into 1994 Pilibhit jail carnage of Sikhs

May 12, 2016

New Delhi: Senior leaders of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) met Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh to seek CBI probe into brutal murder of seven Sikh detainees and beating of 21 others (also Sikh detainees) by Pilibhit jail authorities. MP Prem Singh Chandumajra, S. Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Balwinder Singh Bhundar, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) chief […]

Brutal killings of Sikhs in Pilibhit Jail: After 22 years DSGMC, SGPC to file petitions

May 11, 2016

Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) and Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee have announced, in separate statements, to approach India's Human Rights Commission and the Supreme Court of India (SCI) respectively, seeking justice for eight Sikhs who were tortured to death by jail staff in Pilibhit district jail in 1994 and 21 others who had sustained serious injuring in this blind show of brutality.

1994 Massacre of Sikhs in Pilibhit Jail: Mulayam Yadav promises re-probe

May 10, 2016

It was Mulayam Singh Yadav led Samajwadi Party's government in Uttar Pradesh in 1994 when 28 Sikh detainees were brutally beaten up by jail staff- off which seven had died and remaining 21 suffered serious injuries.

The Forgotten Brutalities – How Sikhs were beaten to death in Pilibhit jail

May 9, 2016

With a CBI special court awarding imprisonment for life to 47 Uttar Pradesh cops found guilty of a 1991 fake encounter in Pilibhit in which 11 Sikh pilgrims were killed by cops, the focus is back on wide-spread and systematic human rights abuses committed by Indian security forces against the civilian Sikh population.