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CHANIDGARH, November 12: The Peoples8217; Commission does not need any recognition from the state government for its continuance. This was stated here today by Paramjit Kaur Khalra, wife of missing human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra.
Talking to media persons here, she said the motive of setting up of the Peoples8217; Commission was to create a platform for people who were repressed by the state in the past, to get justice swiftly. She said the commission will listen to the complaints of the people and bring it to the notice of the high ups. Paramjit lashed out against the state government, accusing it of adopting double standards as it had assured help to the torture victim but it had failed to restrain its officials.
Paramjit Kaur Khalra alleged that due to the indifferent attitude of the state government, the trial in the Khalra case was going on at a very slow pace and the CBI also was going slow in this case. But she reiterated that she had full faith in the judiciary and hoped to get justice. She said that Amnesty International had already accepted Khalra case as a quot;test casequot; and so it was testing time for the judiciary too.
She also said the state government was losing credibility on a fast note due to its laxity on such matters. She alleged the state government had sacrificed the interests of Punjabis, especially the Sikhs, by withdrawing itself from contesting the assembly elections in other states, especially in New Delhi.
