Showing dustbin to Human Rights of minorities, Pakistani authority sack first Sikh police officer Gulab Singh

Lahore, August 4: Pakistan's first Sikh police officer Gulab Singh was dismissed on Friday for being absent from office for over three months. The move from Pakistan’s traffic police, however, creates suspicion.

 

As when we talk of crushing the voices of minorities, killing the minorities and violating the human rights of minorities..we do talk about Pakistan. Because Pakistan tops in harbouring terrorism and as well as in crushing the minorities and still so-called various human rights preservers including United Nations keep quiet.

Notably, after being sacked, Gulab Singh alleged that the traffic police SP had taken action against him on the request of the ETPB. "The board had approached the traffic police and asked SP Sadiq to pressure me to withdraw a case against the board officials for illegally evicting me and my family members from our house at Gurdwara Janamsthan Bebe Nanki, Dera Chahal Lahore," he added.

Gulab Singh further said he had an accident and presented a medical certificate along with his leave application to the department. "Since the department had no other legal point to initiate action it chose to proceed against me on the leave issue," he said, adding he was confident that the DIG traffic would listen to him and restore him during the course of appeal.

Singh reiterated that he would not withdraw his case in the court against his and his family members' illegal eviction by the ETPB. "Even the Supreme Court has taken notice of our illegal eviction and the board is worried about that," Pakistan’s first Sikh officer concluded.

On the other side, Pakistan’s traffic police spokesperson Ali Nawaz said, "Superintendent police (traffic) Asif Sadiq, after an inquiry against Gulab Singh for staying absent from office over three months, has dismissed him from service.” He said Singh can file an appeal in the office of the deputy inspector general, traffic police, against his dismissal.

Earlier in the year 2011, Gulab Singh alleged that PSGPC president Tara Singh along with other Indian Sikh fugitives currently taking shelter in Pakistan had collected donations of Rs 10 to Rs 15 crore from the Sikhs of UK, USA, Canada etc on the name of development of Bebe Nanki Gurdwara but didn't spend a single penny.

He then had filed a case against Syed Asif Akhtar Hashmi for illegal selling of the Gurudwara property. In February 2018, the Supreme Court of Pakistan held Hashmi, then Chairman of Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), responsible for illegal selling of Sikh gurudwaras in the country.

Last month, Gulab Singh was forcibly evicted by Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), the parent body of Sikh Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (PSGPC) following a property dispute. Gulab Singh pleaded to the police to give him 10 minutes but wasn’t allowed.