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Supreme Court of India
ruling on the use of the slogan Khalistan (#Khalistan)
Case Update 2008
It is perfectly legal to use the slogan and banner of Khalistan under Indian constitution as evident by the ruling attached below

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Today British Sikh political prisoner #JagtarSinghJohal spends his SIXTH birthday arbitrarily imprisoned in India. The Scotsman's brother @GSJohal85 is calling for a meeting with MI6 after it was revealed they aided India's detainment and subsequent torture of him.

#FreeJaggiNow

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@margo19860 @kapany https://t.co/YSsBVnN8nD

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Punjab's 1984 "Terrorism" against Hindus and Sikhs
was orchestrated by the Indian Government
and NOT Sikh militants acc. to a United States Diplomatic Paper leak.
https://t.co/WrYPgsfScp

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In the 19th-century, when there were a lot of misconceptions and questions raised upon the Different identity of Sikh Religion and it being a sect of Hindu Religion

Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha clarified and answered those misconceptions and questions.

Excerpts are detailed here:

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@kapany Supreme Court of India has used the word “Khalistan” 2.75 Million Times in hearings dated 1992 to 1994. Does that mean India Advocates for Khalistan?

This ignorance is precisely why Guru Sahib termed a Hindu Blind.

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@BhatiaNeeraj86b Singh Sabha, SGPC and Sikh Panth are three completely separate constructs, wait for future posts on the same. Happy Learning!

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@BhatiaNeeraj86b Rehat nama did

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In January 2004, Bheora, with three other comrades, escaped from the Burail jail through a 100-foot-long tunnel they had dug through their barrack. They were arrested later by the Delhi police.

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Case of 9 Sikh Political Prisoners

3. Bhai Paramjit Singh Bheora

A special court sentenced Bhai Paramjit Singh Bheora, chief of Babbar Khalsa International, to life imprisonment for the 1995 assassination of the then Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh.

#ReleaseSikhPrisoners

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Babbar Khalsa International had claimed responsibility for the assassination.

Paramjit Singh Bheora, chief of Babbar Khalsa International, was arrested in 1997.

The CBI booked nine persons, including Bheora, for the killing.

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Despite the fact that he is a political prisoner who has served nearly ten years in prison, due to his extradition, he now faces the possibility of execution as various state agencies have subject him to severe torture and have lobbied for the death penalty.

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Case of 9 Sikh Political Prisoners

2. Bhai Jagtar Singh Tara

Born 1977, Bhai Jagtar Singh grew up in village Dekwala near Ropar.
A special court in 2018 awarded life imprisonment to Jagtar Singh Tara in connection with assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.

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Immediately following this action, Bhai Tara was arrested and imprisoned in Burail Jail, Chandigarh until the sensational escape of January 2004 where Bhai Tara and his comrades dug a 94-foot long tunnel out of the prison and disappeared into the night.

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Prior to his arrest, Johal, a British citizen, was an online activist and contributed to a website that documented human rights violations and persecution of Sikhs in India.

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Case of Sikh Political Prisoners

Jagtar Singh Johal has been arbitrarily detained for his religious belief and for documenting religious freedom violations. — United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

#ReleaseSikhPrisoners

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Authorities later released a press statement that Johal was among other suspects accused of “being involved in a series of killings carried out in collaboration with Pakistani intelligence operatives as part of a conspiracy to fan communal disturbances and destabilize the State.”