Sikh grocery store owner was told that "there ain't nothing you can do" repeatedly and that "ayy, just let him go" as they were being robbed. The Sikhs disagreed. pic.twitter.com/ZIb5CVLMNl
The Sikh owner of a 7-Eleven store in California and an employee at the store beat up a man who tried to rob the store.
A video of the robber being knocked to the ground by them has gone viral online.
The clip showed the robber walking behind the billing counter and grabbing tobacco products — including cigarettes, cigars and vapes.
He then tosses them into a waste bin.
“Just let him go. There ain’t nothing you can do. They’re not going to do nothing,” the bystander who took the video can be heard saying.
As the robber continued with his heist, he is tackled to the ground quickly. Soon, the Sikh man came with a stick and whacked the robber.
The Sikh man beat him up as as the robber struggles and screams in pain. “Okay, okay!”, said the thief to the Sikh man while pleading for mercy.
“That’s called whoopin’ your a–! Whoop his a–! Get him!” the bystander says, before asking the thief if he’s ready to give up the heist. “Yeah, I’m done!” the robber pleads.
“I’m going to go.”
As he is thrashed again, “No more! No more!” the cameraman says as the thief screams in pain.
They reportedly did not call the police and let him go.
“Sikh grocery store owner was told that “there ain’t nothing you can do” repeatedly and that “ayy, just let him go” as they were being robbed,” wrote a Twitter user while posting the video.
Another wrote: “Funny thing is, if he told the Sikh owners he needed basic groceries like food or medicines, there are very high chances the owner would have helped him for free. All gurudwaras (Sikh places of worship) have communal kitchens where anyone can eat for free.
“I’m not a violent person but it was nice to see something being done to someone trying to rob the store,” said another.
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“Kill the Sikhs…. they have killed our mother,” Congress leader Jagdish Tytler shouted, as he came out of a white ambassador car that pulled up in front of Gurdwara Pul Bangash on November 1, 1984. Soon, three persons at the Sikh shrine lay sprawled, dead.
The statement is part of a supplementary chargesheet filed against the former Union Minister, which led to his appearance, for the first time, on Saturday before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand as an accused in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Three persons were killed and a gurdwara was set ablaze in the Pul Bangash area in New Delhi on November 1, 1984, a day after then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
One of the statements claims that after alighting from the car, Tytler rebuked his supporters assembled there, saying, “I had completely assured you that nothing would affect (harm) you. You just kill the Sikhs”.
“The accused further said despite this, least number (very few) of Sikhs have been killed due to which he has been put to shame. He also said there had been only nominal killings in his constituencies (Assembly constituencies under his Delhi Sadar Lok Sabha seat) compared to East Delhi and North Delhi, and thereafter he left in a huff,” the statement said.
Some of the witnesses claimed though they did not hear what exactly Tytler told the mob, people gathered there “became violent after that and began to attack Gurdwara Pul Bangash and set it on fire.”
The final report by the CBI said it also included the statements of witnesses who claimed they had not named Tytler, or retracted their statements naming him, because they were “under threat from Tytler”.
Kill Sikhs, they have killed our mother, Jagdish Tytler told mob’: Witnesses
Kill the Sikhs….they have killed our mother,” Congress leader Jagdish Tytler shouted, as he came out of a white ambassador car that pulled up in front of Gurdwara Pul Bangash on November 1, 1984. Soon, three people at the Sikh shrine lay sprawled, dead.
The statement is part of a supplementary charge sheet filed against the former Union minister which led to his appearance, for the first time, Saturday before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand as an accused in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Three people were killed and a gurdwara was set ablaze in the Pul Bangash area in New Delhi on November 1, 1984, a day after the then prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
One of the statements claims that after alighting from the car, Tytler rebuked his supporters assembled there, saying, “I had completely assured you that nothing would affect (harm) you. You just kill the Sikhs.”
“Accused further said that despite this, least number (very few) of Sikhs have been killed due to which he has been put to shame. He also said there has been only nominal killing in his constituencies (assembly constituencies under his Delhi Sadar Lok Sabha seat) compared to East Delhi and North Delhi, and thereafter he left in a huff,” the statement said.
Some of the witnesses claimed though they did not hear what exactly Tytler told the mob, people gathered there “became violent after that (i.e. after the visit of accused) and began to attack the Gurudwara Pul Bangash and set it on fire”.
Most witnesses said they failed to hear what Tytler told the mob but they saw him alight from the car and make a speech that triggered the rampage.
Another statement claimed that on November 3, 1984 Tytler went to a hospital in the national capital and rebuked a group of people gathered there, saying his instructions had not been followed “faithfully”.
“Accused Jagdish Tyler also said his position has been greatly compromised and lowered in the eyes of central leaders. As per this affidavit, accused told the persons present there that only nominal killing of Sikhs has taken place in his constituency as compared to East Delhi, Outer Delhi Cantt, etc.
“Tytler also said he had promised large-scale killing of Sikhs and promised full protection but you (people) have betrayed me (Tytler) and let me down,” the charge sheet said, quoting the statement of one of the witnesses.
The final report by the CBI said it also included the statements of witnesses who claimed they had not named Tytler, or retracted their statements naming him, because they were “under threat from Tytler”.
“In view of the facts and circumstances mentioned above, it is submitted that during investigation sufficient evidence have come on record that the accused Jagdish Tytler was part of the unlawful assembly committing rioting that had assembled near Gurudawara Pul Bangash on November 1, 1984, violating the prohibitory orders…
“(He), instigated, incited, provoked the mob to kill the Sikhs which resulted in Gurdwara Pul Bangash being set on fire by the mob and killing of three persons belonging to Sikh community and also promoted enmity between different religious groups,” the CBI said in the charge sheet.
The court on Saturday accepted the bail bond furnished by Jagdish Tytler in connection with the case, noting that he has already been granted anticipatory bail by a sessions court.
A sessions court had on Friday granted anticipatory bail to Tytler in the case on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and surety of the like amount.
The court had also imposed certain conditions on Tytler for bail, including that he will not tamper with the evidence or leave the country without its permission.
The CBI has invoked charges under Sections 147 (rioting), 109 (abetment) read with 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), among others, against Tytler.
Toshakhana case: Imran jailed for 3 years, can’t contest next poll
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested by the police from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore on Saturday after a local court sentenced him to three years in prison and slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh for illegally selling state gifts.
The cricketer-turned-politician was later transferred to Islamabad and will be in custody at Central Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. Imran also technically stands disqualified from holding any public office for five years under Article 63(1)(h) of the Pakistan constitution. Unless a higher court stays his conviction, he could effectively be barred from contesting the next General Election.
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif has indicated that Parliament would be dissolved on August 9, three days before the end of its term, and the elections are likely in November. Imran’s conviction came a day after Pakistan’s high court temporarily halted the district court’s trial. It was not immediately clear why the trial had proceeded despite the high court’s decision. “He has been found guilty of corrupt practices by hiding the benefits he acquired from the national Exchequer wilfully and intentionally. He cheated while providing information about gifts he obtained from the Toshakhana which later proved to be false and inaccurate. His dishonesty has been established beyond doubt,” the order said.
Unlike in May when his arrest sparked off widespread rioting and even ransacking of residences of top army officers, there were sporadic protests and the police said traffic flow was routine. The ex-PM is facing over 150 cases relating to attacks on military installations, terrorism, murder and blasphemy.
Pakistan’s history of jailing its former prime ministers
With Imran Khan’s sentencing and quick arrest on Saturday in a corruption case, Pakistan has maintained its notoriety for jailing former prime ministers while shying away from taking any action against military dictators who repeatedly violated the Constitution.
Khan, the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore after an Islamabad-based sessions court sentenced him to three years in prison on the charges of hiding the proceeds from the sale of state gifts from the Toshakhana.
The Toshakhana is a department under the Cabinet Division that stores gifts given to rulers and government officials by heads of other governments and foreign dignitaries. Khan bought some gifts, including a precious watch given to him by the Saudi crown prince and sold the same for profit.
The 70-year-old leader was authorised to buy the gifts from Toshakhana and also carry out the sale but failed to inform the Election Commission of Pakistan about the money he made for which he was accused of concealment which is a crime under the law.
In better times, Khan might have escaped with a warning or a fine by the court, but he had already run out of luck when he fell out with the powerful military establishment that led to his ouster from the government in April last year.
Khan is not the first Pakistani premier to end up in jail, the country has numerous unenvious examples of the treatment meted out to elected leaders in its sordid history.
The first on the list is Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali politician from then East Pakistan who served as the fifth prime minister. He was arrested in January 1962 and put in jail on bogus charges of “anti-state activities”. His actual crime was his refusal to support military ruler General Ayub Khan.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who served as the ninth prime minister, was arrested on the charges of conspiracy to murder a political opponent in 1974. He was sentenced to death and hanged on April 4, 1979.
Benazir Bhutto served as the premier twice from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. The country’s only woman prime minister was arrested several times—first in 1985 and put under house arrest for 90 days.
In August 1986, she was arrested for denouncing the military dictator Ziaul Haq at a rally in Karachi. In April 1999, she was sentenced to five years imprisonment for corruption and disqualified and fined more than 5 million pounds. She avoided arrest as she was in self-exile.
Nawaz Sharif was arrested in 1999 after General Pervez Musharraf took over and later on exiled for 10 years.
In July 2018, he was sentenced to 10 years in jail along with his daughter Maryam Nawaz in a corruption case. In December of the same year, he was handed over seven years in prison in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills corruption case. He went to London for treatment in 2019 and never came back.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was arrested in July 2019 in connection with a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) corruption case but later on, bailed out.
Imran Khan was also arrested on May 9, 2023 in another corruption case but released after a couple of days after the intervention by the Supreme Court. He was sentenced to three years in jail in the Toshakhana case on August 5, 2023.
Commenting on his conviction and arrest, famous journalist and Geo News anchorman Hamid Mir said that he was not the first prime minister sent to jail and may not be the last one.
“First Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, then Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, then Benazir Bhutto, then Nawaz Sharif and now Imran Khan. Prime Ministers and politicians are always punished,” he tweeted.
He also said that no prime minister in the history of Pakistan has yet served the full five-year term.
In stark contrast, none of the four military dictators – Auyb Khan, Yahya Khan, Ziaul Haq and Pervez Musharraf – faced justice for toppling elected governments and subverting the Constitution.
The powerful Pakistan Army, which has ruled the coup-prone country for more than half of its 75 years of existence, has wielded considerable power in matters of security, foreign policy as well as politics.
AFT Bar asks Supreme Court to take action against Defence Secy for interfering with judicial functioning
Defence Secretary had recently issued a directive seeking a report and analysis on recent decisions by the Chandigarh Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal
A directive issued by the Defence Secretary seeking a report and analysis on recent decisions by the Chandigarh Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has kicked up a controversy, with the Bar terming the move as contemptuous and interference with the administration of justice, and seeking legal action against the officer.
In a letter written to the Chief Justice of India on August 3, the AFT Chandigarh Bench Bar Association has pointed out that the Defence Secretary is a litigant before the AFT and is in fact Respondent No 1 in all cases being heard in the AFT, and such a “direction” and seeking “analysis” or “inputs” on the judicial orders passed by the AFT is direct interference in judicial functioning.
A communication by the D(AFT) Cell of the Ministry of Defence addressed to the Principal Bench of the AFT on behalf of the Defence Secretary last week read, “It is stated that Defence Secretary has directed that a report be prepared on the recent AFT Chandigarh decisions on pay/pension matters with analysis thereof. AFT (PB) is requested to furnish its comments/Inputs regarding the same latest by 28.07.2023 (5 PM).”
Asking the Chief Justice to take suo-moto cognizance of its letter-petition and initiate appropriate proceedings against the officer concerned for directly interfering in the judicial functioning of the AFT, the Bar has termed the communication to be not only contemptuous, but also illegal, unethical and against the spirit of Article 50 of the Constitution of India.
“We strongly protest and object to the Defence Secretary passing directions and orders to a judicial body or treating the AFT as a department under the MoD while in reality it is meant to be an independent statutory tribunal governed by an Act of Parliament to render justice to serving and retired soldiers and their families,” the Bar wrote in its letter.
In fact, in terms of the law laid down by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court the MoD cannot even be the parent administrative ministry of the AFT and its infrastructural and other support must come from the Ministry of Law and Justice or at best the Ministry of Finance, till the National Tribunal Commission is created as directed by the Apex Court, the letter added.
Stating that seeking analysis of judgments from a judicial body since adverse orders are being passed against an official litigant amounts to browbeating of a court and cannot be taken lightly by the legal community or be overlooked, the Bar averred that since the Tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme Court pass orders against various government departments with far-reaching consequences almost every day, this move would give a license to the secretaries of other ministries to direct courts and tribunals to report to them with ‘inputs’, ‘comments’ and ‘analysis, which is absolutely uncalled for and unheard of.
It also contravenes the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary as endorsed vide UN General Assembly resolutions as well as the Independence and impartiality of the Judiciary, Jurors and Assessors and the Independence of Lawyers endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council resolution.
The Bar also pointed out that in a similar matter relating to the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), the Supreme Court had convicted the Secretary concerned for criminal contempt for sending communications to the ITAT and interfering its judicial functioning.
Military Heritage Tourism to kick off on August 12
To acquaint the people with India’s rich military heritage and border areas, the United Services Institution of India (USI), has decided to kick-off Military Heritage Tourism. The USI, the country’s national and defence services thinktank, said the inaugural Military Heritage Guided Tour at Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district, would be kicked off on August 12.
Maj Gen PK Goswami, deputy director general, USI, said: “A substantial number of domestic and foreign tourists have a keen desire to commemorate our nation’s military triumphs and historic events. Military heritage tourism will captivate individuals intrigued by history, military affairs, and cultural heritage. It will serve as a heartfelt attraction for veterans and their families, nurturing their emotional connection to these hallowed grounds.”
Three Army personnel were killed in an encounter with militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Friday, officials said.
Additional forces sent
A search operation turned into an encounter after the militants fired at the security forces. Additional forces have been rushed to the encounter site in south Kashmir.
Security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation in the higher reaches of the Halan forest area of Kulgam district in south Kashmir following inputs about the presence of militants, a police official said. He said the search operation turned into an encounter after the militants fired at the security forces.
In the exchange of fire, three security forces personnel were injured, the official said, adding, they succumbed during treatment. A search operation is being carried out, stated Srinagar-based Chinar Corps. Reinforcement has been rushed to the area.
Bill empowering tri-services’ commanders passed in LS
In a step indicating creation of theatre commands, the Lok Sabha on Friday passed a Bill that seeks to empower the commander-in-chief and the officer-in-command of inter-services organisations with disciplinary and administrative powers over personnel from other forces serving in such establishments.
Aims of the Bill
Effective discipline in inter-service establishments by the heads of inter-services organisations
No requirement of reverting personnel under disciplinary proceedings to their parent service units
Expeditious disposal of cases of indiscipline
Saving public money and time by avoiding multiple proceedings
Greater integration and jointness among the three services
The Inter-Services Organisations (Command, Control and Discipline) Bill, 2023, is a long-awaited reform especially after the appointment the Chief of Defence Staff. The move comes 22 years after India created its first tri-service command — the Andaman and Nicobar Command.
Bill giving IIM audit powers to Prez gets nod
The Lok Sabha on Friday passed a Bill seeking to entrust the management accountability of the IIMs with the President, who will be a Visitor and have powers to audit their functioning, remove directors and nominate a member in the selection committee. The Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill, 2023, was tabled by Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. TNS
Theatre commands, which entail having a single commander leading the personnel from the three armed forces, are expected to be announced soon. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, while piloting the Bill in the Lok Sabha, said it was part of a series of military reforms being undertaken by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.
Separate Acts
At present, the armed forces personnel are governed by their specific Service Acts — Army Act, 1950; Navy Act, 1957; and the Air Force Act, 1950
A Parliamentary Standing Committee, in its report on July 21, had okayed plans to bring in the law. The personnel of the Indian Air Force, Army and the Navy are governed under the Air Force Act, 1950, the Army Act, 1950, and the Navy Act, 1957, respectively.
The Bill does not propose any change to the existing Service Acts, rules and regulations. Service personnel, when serving in an inter-services organisation, will continue to be governed by their respective Service Acts. However, the Bill will empower heads of the inter-services organisations to exercise all disciplinary and administrative powers as per the existing Acts of the three services. At present, a tri-service commander has no role in the administration of justice against any of his subordinates. Personnel posted to tri-services organisations, while facing disciplinary proceedings, if any, are reverted to their parent service.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has asked the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) to fast track resolution of pending cases while ensuring that the judicial process is followed earnestly without any violation.
He was addressing an event organised to celebrate AFT Raising Day in New Delhi today. “There is a large number of pending cases in different courts across the country and specialised tribunals are set up to reduce the burden,” he said. The AFT was inaugurated in August 2009.
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