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Radical Sikh bodies shutdown in Punjab throws train schedules off track | | Schedules of several trains across Punjab have gone awry in the wake of various Sikh organisations joing hands for a state-wide shutdown. Trains such as the Amritsar Shatabdi, Garib
Rath and the Jammu Mail are among the trains running hours behind schedule. Activists
of various Sikh radical organizations sat on railway tracks on Wednesday in protest
against the lack of progress in legal cases linked to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Shouting slogan against the Indian Government for delaying justice to relatives
of victims of the anti-Sikh riots, the activists sat on the tracks and forced
police in the state to arrest them. It maybe recalled that in November 1984, following
the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi, armed mobs set fire to
Sikhs, their homes, shops and business across the length and breath of north India
. Several thousand Sikhs were killed in that pogrom, and now, even after 26 years,
many Sikhs are of the unanimous view that justice has passed the relatives of
those eliminated.
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