KAC chairman Bhai Mokham Singh, SGPC member Karnail Singh Panjoli, Dal
Khalsa leaders including H S Dhami, Kanwarpal Singh, Dr Manjinder Singh,
Gurdeep Singh Kalkat, Sukhdev Singh Hoshiarpur beside Ghuman’s wife
Yashpreet Kaur were present outside the jail to welcome him.
The Ludhiana police booked Sarbjit Singh Ghuman, a Dal Khalsa secretary
on 23 December 2007 under the crime that he never committed. He was
framed in a high profile case in spite of Panthic and Party leadership
repeatedly pleading his innocence before the state chief minister and
the then DGP. His arrest was a travesty of justice.
Ostensibly Sarabjit Singh was linked to the case of RDX recovery on Sep
2, 2007 because he happened to be a friend of the main accused of the
case Gurpreet Singh Khalsa. Though Sarabjit Singh has established beyond
doubt that his friendship was over once Gurpreet Singh Khalsa went
overseas, yet the police charged him for motivating Khalsa for militant
activities.
Sarabjit Singh surrendered before the court of Ludhiana Judicial
Magistrate Randhir Verma on 7th April 2008 who remanded him in judicial
custody.
At the time of his release, Ghuman accused the Ludhiana police for
wrongly implicating him in a militant related case and ruining his 17
months in jail. While talking with the media, he said political
leadership has failed to rein in the police leadership that has become
law unto them with the passage of time. Police damn care for political
class, was how he summed up. He said even today Bhai Daljit Singh and
his associates were being victimized of vendetta politics being pursued
by the ruling Akali Dal.
He reiterated that their party believes in pursuing its agenda through
peaceful methods and they stand by it notwithstanding the state
repression.