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Awaiting justice since 1992

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Balwant Singh Multani, a young, vibrant 28 year old, having a degree in civil engineering was working as a junior engineer with Chandigarh Tourism and Industrial Development Cooperation (CITCO) in Chandigarh from May,1989. He was about to be promoted as SDO by December 31, 1991. His father Darshan Singh Multani was an IAS officer, also his uncle was an IAS officer. On December 11, 1991, Balwant was taken into custody by Chandigarh Police at around 4 am from his house in Mohali in a police raid. His life changed rather ended! He was a suspect of a car bomb blast in which the then SSP of Chandigarh, Mr. Sumedh Saini, was going home with 6 other people in which 5 people died and Mr. Saini and one ASI Ramesh Lal were injured.  FIR was registered under various sections of the IPC, the Explosive Substances Act 1908 and the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, to investigate the attack on Saini’s car. Legal documents reveal, a chargesheet was filed against 8 p...

A Religion called ‘Humanity’

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  Trust me I’m fed up of all the hate comments and deliberately run false propaganda of some people in order to protect/save their religion, particularly led by them for showing that their religion is much better than the rest of the religions in the world. There are around 4200 religions in this entire world out of which 18 are popularly practiced. In India alone, there are about 9-10 religions, not only these, these are further bifurcated into many sects making the count reach to thousands. In order to maintain peace in our country and also to prove that we give equal importance to all the religions, the word ‘secular’ was added in the preamble to the Constitution of India in it’s 42 nd amendment in the year 1976. But still, there are some people in our society which tend to establish that their religion is the supreme one and they could harm other people and their rights in order to prove their point. We often come across certain hate post and videos on social media which...