Radical outfit Dal Khalsa today alleged that Punjab government has failed to deliver 'real justice' to victims of police firing in Behbal Kalan, instead resorted to "time-tested cheap tactics" of offering cash or job to kin or building memorial in their memory.
The organisation feels compensation without bringing the guilty policemen to book means a little.
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal took days and weeks to muster courage to meet the aggrieved family members without bothering to ensuring the arrest of cops that ordered police firing on protesters who were staging peaceful protest against the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib, said Dal Khalsa spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh.
It's typical style of governments, be it Union or state, to silence voices of victims by offering them monetary compensations, he said.
He asked Sukhbir to explain the difference between his SAD-led government and the successive governments at Centre that have denied justice to victims of November 1984 killings and instead has doled out financial compensation to them.
Dal Khalsa clarified that in the eyes of law, offering financial compensation to victims of state terrorism was secondary and it would never be considered as justice in real terms.
Reiterating that nothing short of arrest of guilty cops would soothe the hurt sentiments of family members in general and community in particular, he said both father-son running the government were playing dual game with the people.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's tone and tenor was apologetic while junior Badal was spewing fire on dissenting Sikhs, said he while condemning the arrest of Panthic leaders on flimsy grounds.
