Punjab Congress chief Warring booked over ‘casteist’ remarks on Buta Singh

Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring has been booked for making “derogatory and casteist” remarks towards late Buta Singh, a former Union Home Minister.

The Ludhiana MP has been booked underneath the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Section 196 (selling enmity primarily based on faith, race) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, in keeping with an FIR registered on Tuesday.

The case was registered following a criticism by Buta Singh’s son, Sarabjot Singh Sidhu, on the Cyber Crime Police Station in Kapurthala district.

Sarabjot Singh had approached Kapurthala Senior Superintendent of Police towards Warring over the alleged remarks.

Mr. Warring has been underneath hearth from leaders of the rival political events for his “casteist” remarks towards Buta Singh, which he made whereas campaigning for the Congress candidate for the November 11 Tarn Taran Assembly Bypoll.

Mr. Warring, the Punjab Congress chief, on Monday tendered an “unconditional apology” and mentioned that Buta Singh, a veteran chief of his occasion, was like a father determine to him.

In his criticism, Sarabjot Singh termed his feedback “deeply offensive and casteist.” He alleged that Mr. Warring’s assertion was not solely factually incorrect and racially charged, nevertheless it additionally constituted a direct insult to a pacesetter revered by the Scheduled Caste neighborhood, and who belonged to the Mazhabi Sikh neighborhood.

“The use of the term ‘Black Sikh’ was used deliberately by the offender in a derogatory context to hurt the sentiments of the complainant, his family and the community. The word ‘rang kala’ was intentionally used by the offender to hurt the sentiments of the complainant and his family. Not only this, but it is defamatory and abusive to the ‘Mazhabi Sikhs’ by pointing ‘kala rang’,” he wrote in his criticism.

Sarabjot Singh mentioned the usage of the phrase ‘Kala Mazhabi Sikh’ quantities to hitting the persona of the person and is towards the Constitution of India.

“It clearly amounts to ‘body shaming,'” he mentioned.

“The words ‘Black Sikh’ reinforce the historically entrenched ideas like the superiority of the upper castes over the lower castes/untouchables,” he mentioned in his criticism.

The feedback have a “potential to incite caste-based tensions and disrupt communal harmony in the state. They dishonour the legacy of a national leader who served the country with distinction,” Buta Singh’s son mentioned.