Saka Nakodar: High Court issues notices to Darbara Singh Guru and Izhar Alam for appearing on August 14
Posted: 22 Jul 2019 03:44 AM PDTCHANDIGARH, Punjab—Pursuing the case of the martyrdom of four Sikh youths in Saka Nakodar of 1986, the Punjab & Haryana High Court has today issued notices to the then chief secretary Darbara Singh Guru and the then SSP Izhar Alam asking them to appear on August 14. Notably,
the families of these victim youths had approached the High Court seeking constitution of a Special Investigation Team for probing the killings after registering an FIR for murder, attempt to murder and another offence against the then CM Darbara Singh Guru, Mohali SSP Izhar Alam and SP (Operations) Ashwani Kumar Sharma.Four Sikh youths namely Bhai Ravinder Singh, Bhai Harminder Singh, Bhai Baldhir Singh and Bhai Jhilman Singh had attained martyrdom on February 4, 1986 while staging protest against sacrilege of five saroops of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. The Punjab police had opened fire on them when they were staging a peaceful protest in Nakodar.
  The SAD government spearheaded by Surjit Singh Barnala had appointed the Justice Gurnam Singh led Investigation Commission in 1986. The Commission had submitted its report in 1987 which was tabled in the Punjab assembly on March 5, 2001 by the Parkash Badal led Punjab government.