Washington: A US-based Sikh group on Monday said that it will challenge the decision of an American district court last week to dismiss alleged human rights violations case against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
The Sikh for Justice (SFJ) had filed the case of alleged human rights violations against Badal in 2012, but it was dismissed by a US district court in Wisconsin last Friday.
The group said it will appeal against the order in the US Court of Appeals asking for a remand to depose Badal personally before a US Federal Judge on the issue of the service of summons.
SFJ has retained the services of a top Chicago based law firm and famed Super Lawyers "Pavich Law Group" with Ian Levin, a former US federal judge, who have experience in cases related to human rights violations filed under Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Victim Protection Act, the rights group said in a statement. ...
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11:40 AM, May 20, 2013
From the moment Sarabjit Singh's body arrived in India, to it being transported to his village, the postmortem being conducted and finally the funeral rites itself - both the state and central governments ensured there were no hiccups. ...
10:04 PM, May 03, 2013
Bhikhiwind: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh was cremated on Friday with full state honours at his village in Bhikhiwind near Amritsar amidst heavy presence of politicians. Among those present at the funeral were Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. The Punjab government had announced a financial assistance of Rs 1 crore for the family of Sarabjit and declared a...
02:38 PM, May 03, 2013
Chandigarh: Punjab government on Thursday announced a financial assistance of Rs one crore for the family of Sarabjit Singh, who died in Pakistan following a murderous assault in a jail there, and declared a three-day state mourning. Flags will fly half mast on all government buildings and there will be no official ceremonial functions during this period, an official spokesman said here. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal aannounced a financial...
07:59 PM, May 02, 2013
New Delhi: In a bid to build consensus over immediate roll-back of wealth tax on agriculture land, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal met leaders of Janata Dal (United), Trinamool Congress (TMC) and AIADMK in Delhi on Monday seeking their support for the cause. Badal, accompanied by his deputy and SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal and MPs Harsimrat Badal and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, met JD-U President and NDA convener Sharad...
12:46 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Chandigarh: Three officials of Punjab's Faridkot town jail were injured on Monday in a clash with inmates following the death of a prisoner, police said. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered a magisterial enquiry. The inmates went on the rampage and damaged property inside the prison, police officials in Faridkot, 250 km from Chandigarh, police said. Police reinforcements and fire brigade had to be rushed into the jail complex...
05:49 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday, in connection with the death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar case. "Both Badals will meet the Prime Minister tomorrow (Monday) to seek commutation of death sentence of Bullar to life imprisonment," HS Bains political advisor on national affairs to Badal said in Chandigarh on Sunday. Earlier, Akal Takth,...
10:03 AM, Apr 15, 2013
In order to ensure the balanced growth of the rural areas in a holistic manner, the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday said the Union government must implement the genuine federal structure in the country. The chief minister, who was in Moga to address a public gathering, said that knowing well the needs of the country, the framers of the Indian Constitution had envisaged true federal system for...
02:55 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Accusing the Congress-led UPA of excessive centralisation of power, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday said states have been reduced to the status of "dignified municipal committees." ...
08:20 PM, Mar 27, 2013
Strongly rebutting Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal's statement that the Congress party did not observe martyr's day, Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Sunday advised him to desist from playing cheap politics in the name of martyrs. ...
02:35 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday called for a nationwide political initiative to recast the Constitution along federal lines, scrapping of all central schemes and provisions for direct transfer of 50 per cent of central taxes to states. ...
02:10 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Two days after a magisterial probe was ordered, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday said the policemen found guilty of thrashing a girl in Tarn Taran will be dismissed from service. "There is a system, it is wrong to beat a woman (and) this is against the policy of the state government. In the end after the probe, the cops, if found guilty, will be dismissed from service,"...
07:50 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Two days after several policemen were caught on camera beating up a woman and her father publicly by a roadside in Tarn Taran, the Punjab DGP has now made a even more shocking statement. He has claimed that he is yet to see the video of the policemen thrashing the woman. ...
05:05 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Days after a teenaged gang-rape victim in Patiala district committed suicide after she was repeatedly called to the police station and asked uncomfortable questions, the Punjab government on Monday ordered that no complainant of gender-related cases would be called to police stations in future. ...
01:51 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Amritsar: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday visited Rampura village and met family of the policeman, who was shot dead allegedly by a local SAD leader after he resisted harassment of his daughter by the politician and his aides. Badal met daughter and other family members of slain ASI Ravinderpal Singh and expressed condolence. Singh's daughter told Badal that her father was publicly beaten by the accused before...
08:13 PM, Dec 08, 2012
New Delhi: A day after a JD(U) leader voted in favour of the UPA government on FDI in retail in the Rajya Sabha, another BJP ally Shiromani Akali Dal has praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday said the Prime Minister was the most distinguished economist of the world. This comes at the backdrop of the Prime Minister's visit to Punjab. Prime Minister Manmohan...
01:15 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Mohali: Stressing the need to build world-class educational institutions in the country, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday regretted that many universities in the country were just teaching shops. Addressing students and faculty members after inaugurating the Mohali campus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Mohali on Sunday, Chidambaram said: "My deepest regret is that many of our universities are teaching shops, with poor infrastructure, outdated textbooks,...
01:14 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Jalandhar: The president of the Punjab Youth Congress was on Friday arrested along with his supporters when they tried to replace photographs of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with those of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the vehicles of the 108 ambulance service. However, they were later released. Stating that the 108 ambulance scheme was centrally sponsored, the Congress had demanded that the posters be replaced, or they would do...
08:33 PM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab on Sunday warned the Congress against meddling in the religious affairs of Sikhs. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who is also the patron of the Akali Dal, said: "The Akali Dal would not tolerate any interference by the Congress party in the religious affairs of the Sikhs." Talking to the media in Rakhra village of Patiala district, 100 km from...
07:04 PM, Nov 11, 2012
Oak Creek: Sikh priest Punjab Singh has remained in a coma ever since the shooting rampage at a Wisconsin temple earlier this month that left six victims dead and three other people wounded, his family said. In their first public comments since the August 5 attack, Singh's sons described how they rushed from India to be with their father after the shooting, and how they now spend most of their...
01:19 AM, Aug 31, 2012
