JAMMU: United Sikh Council (USC) on Wednesday paid rich tributes to Shaheed Jashjeet Singh who was martyred on 4th June, 2015 in police firing.
President USC Kuldeep Singh alongwith other office bearers held a press conference in which he said that it was a case of its own kind in which the police in the very first instance resorted to firing without exhausting other means of controlling the situation and the youth was fired upon in the head from point blank distance. Kuldeep Singh said that SSP Uttam Chand was on the spot and equally responsible for the killing of youth and should be booked under section 302 RPC.
Kuldeep Singh also condemned the subsequent action of the police entering into the houses of people in Rani Bagh and Gadi Garh areas using blatant force upon the women, children and elderly people and ransacking their houses.
He appealed to the Sikhs and particularly the youth to observe restraint, discipline and unity among all sections of the Sikh society to seek justice in a peaceful manner and observe the 10th day of Jashjeet Singh’s martyrdom day as ‘Shaheedi Divas’.
Prominent among those present include Amarjit Singh, Balbir Singh, Manjit Singh, Mohinder Singh Khalsa, Jeet Singh, Mohinder Singh, Ranjeet Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Jagmeet Singh, Manpreet Singh, Jasdeep Singh, Satpal Singh, Swaran Singh, Amandeep Singh, Karanjeet Singh, Gurkirat Singh, Harvinder Singh and Satnam Singh.