Phoolka and Khalsa visit riots affected areas of Saharanpur

Ludhiana, August 1, 2014: Today H.S. Phoolka – Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India who has been handling 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots cases and Harinder Singh Khalsa – Member Parliament from Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, visited the riots affected areas of Saharanpur.  They interacted with the victims whose shops and other commercial establishments have been destroyed in the riots.  They also interacted with the members of different communities and also organisations and pleaded with them to maintain peace and harmony.
Harinder Singh Khalsa, Member Parliament, informed the victims that he met Mulayam Singh Yadav, yesterday and pleaded to Yadav that there has been cordial relations among the two communities but some miscreants have stage managed these attacks.  Khalsa requested Yadav that these miscreants should be identified and dealt with sternly.   Yadav assured him that the U.P. government will take appropriate steps.
Phoolka informed the affected shop owners that the plea of the administration that no compensation for loss of commercial properties has ever been given in any riots, is absolutely wrong.  Almost in every riot the compensation for commercial properties is also given.  He said the government should immediately conduct the survey and assess the loss suffered by the victims of commercial properties, vehicles and residential houses. The victims should not destroy the evidence and clean the shops till the survey is conducted. The government needs to take stern action and punish the guilty who have instigated this violence.
Khalsa and Phoolka have demanded that in view of the repeated incidents of commercial violence in U.P., the U.P. government should consider getting the group insurance of the properties done.  The victims should get immediate and full compensation of loss of their property.