Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday hailed the Supreme Court’s refusal to stay proceedings on framing of charges on murder and rioting against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
“It is only just, right and fair that the Apex Court has taken note of the 30-year-long delay in the delivery of justice and relief to the victims of the 1984 massacre and punishment to the goons and their patrons in high positions of power at that time,” said Badal, in a statement.
He added, “If the Government of the day has any conscience, it should read the message in the observation of the Apex Court highlighting the three-decade long wait for justice. For these three decades, the guilty have not only been roaming the streets of Delhi proudly but have even been elevated to the highest portals of power,” he added.
Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir said, “SC’s refusal to stay proceedings against Tytler and its observations on the delay in brining the guilty to book are a resounding slap on face of those who have been misusing positions of power in the UPA to shield the guilty.”
He said that the UPA Government lacks the moral courage to move against the guilty as the entire tragedy was scripted and enacted at the instance of the most powerful people in the Congress at that time.
The Congress should heed the SC warning and stop rubbing salt into the wounds of the innocent victims by protecting the guilty through misuse of authority, he added.