PUNE, 17 October 2007 — Former Punjab Director General of Police and President of the Indian Hockey Federation, K.P.S. Gill yesterday came down heavily on human rights activists, politicians and the judiciary at a press conference here. Gill, better known for eliminating terrorism from Punjab, said that there was not a single genuine human rights activist in India, and alleged that the rights activists received foreign funds and this is part of a conspiracy.
“Several human rights activists are funded by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and also some Western countries. The issues are identified by these fund providers and these activists ultimately use the media to target police and government officials,” Gill alleged. Gill said that there is a nexus between judges and lawyers in the country. “This is not law and justice,” he said, adding that one can easily use this nexus to achieve “justice” for oneself.”
Speaking in the backdrop of the Ludhiana bomb blasts on Monday, Gill said: “Our enemies have drawn a 25-year policy of terror in Punjab and other parts of India. I suspect Babbar Khalsa International and Khalistan Zindabad organizations to be behind the terror blast in Ludhiana.” He added that the nation’s anti-terror strategy is inadequate while stressing the need to put in place a methodical and long-term strategy to curb terrorism.
Criticizing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s failure to thwart terrorist attacks, Gill referred to the London bombing and said politicians planned only for the next elections whereas terrorists planned for the future.
Gill was in Pune to participate in an all party meeting to defend former Punjab DGP Swardeep Singh Virk, who is facing a number of corruption cases. Defending Virk at the political rally held by Hindu fundamentalist organizations here yesterday, Gill said that Virk was a victim of the agenda set by others and that Virk had ancestral properties in Punjab and with the real estate prices going up in Chandigarh, it benefited everyone, including Virk.
“The allegations of disproportionate income leveled against Virk are therefore not justified,” he said, adding that the government should not bring politics in the fight against terrorism.
Vindictive politics and judge-lawyer nexuses are big threat to the democracy of the country, he said, while calling on efforts by intellectual society to work for a change in social situation.
