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An ex-serviceman of Payal has raised the issue of the “missing articles” from the Golden Temple during Operation Bluestar in 1984 and their controversial recovery thereafter.Dissatisfied by the “half-baked” reply of the SGPC to his application filed under the RTI Act in this regard, he now wishes a judicial commission to initiate an independent probe.
As ex-serviceman Joginder Singh Goraya tried to gather information under the RTI Act from the SGPC in June this year regarding the “status of recovery” of each and every item, including gold and gold ornaments, silver and silver ornaments, precious stones, semi-precious stones and pearls, government currency notes, coins, FDRs, paintings, photos, manuscripts, documents, articles, books, files, photographs, etc taken into custody by the Army at the time of Operation Bluestar, the SGPC replied that the books related to Sikh history of Research Board Amritsar and the handwritten manuscripts had not been recovered as yet and that attempts were being made to get them back, specifying at the same time that the ones recovered had been kept with the Sikh History Research Board. Further the reply stated that as per the information gathered from the Golden Temple, Amritsar, the list of articles recovered after military action through district administration has been prepared and kept. Also, that the record of the things before the military action has been completely destroyed and that there is no record left any more.
As the applicant was left craving for more by the SGPC regarding the position of the “recovery” of the “missing specified” articles, records and valuables during Operation Bluestar, he now wants the government or the judicial commission to undertake the probe at the earliest. Goraya alleged that while the Union Ministry of Home Affairs gave him an exact and detailed report of the articles and valuables “returned” to the SGPC when demanded through the RTI, the SGPC on the other hand failed to do so.
(SOURCE - THE TRIBUNE)
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