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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
A leading New Zealand Sikh community leader facing terrorism charges in India has been released and all charges dropped. He was unceremoniously arrested upon in arrival at New Delhi airport earlier this year despite the fact that he had previously travelled to India without any issues. Mr Singh, a former president of the New Zealand Sikh Society and a justice of the peace claimed to be falsely implicated and arrested. His stand has been vindicated by the courts.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday that it had been informed the case against Manpreet Singh had been dismissed. "Our high commission is seeking confirmation of this advice from the court," ministry spokesman Adham Crichton said last night.
The chairman of the Supreme Sikh Council of New Zealand, Daljit Singh, said the decision was a "big relief for both the family and the Sikh community".
"We are very pleased by the court decision, but at the same time it came as no surprise," Daljit Singh said.
"Manpreet is a humble and good man, and his arrest had all along been a mistake."
Daljit Singh, who is also the family spokesman, said the children were "extremely delighted" by the decision and eager to see their father again.
The news of Manpreet’s arrest provoked widespread condemnation within the Sikh community in New Zealand and his acquittal has proved his innocence.
A spokesman for the community, on the condition of anonymity, expressed dismay at the India Governments unjustified and malicious efforts to brand peace loving Sikhs as terrorists despite the fact that the same government is rewarding people involved in the 1984 Sikh Genocide with Cabinet positions. "Despite the testimony of hundreds of witnesses not a single Congress leader has been convicted for organising the attack on Sikhs during November 1984 which left 3000 innocent Sikhs brutally murdered in broad daylight, in the presence of the Delhi police with the connivance of the
A leading New Zealand Sikh community leader facing terrorism charges in India has been released and all charges dropped. He was unceremoniously arrested upon in arrival at New Delhi airport earlier this year despite the fact that he had previously travelled to India without any issues. Mr Singh, a...
A leading New Zealand Sikh community leader facing terrorism charges in India has been released and all charges dropped. He was unceremoniously arrested upon in arrival at New Delhi airport earlier this year despite the fact that he had previously travelled to India without any issues. Mr Singh, a former president of the New Zealand Sikh Society and a justice of the peace claimed to be falsely implicated and arrested. His stand has been vindicated by the courts.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday that it had been informed the case against Manpreet Singh had been dismissed. "Our high commission is seeking confirmation of this advice from the court," ministry spokesman Adham Crichton said last night.
The chairman of the Supreme Sikh Council of New Zealand, Daljit Singh, said the decision was a "big relief for both the family and the Sikh community".
"We are very pleased by the court decision, but at the same time it came as no surprise," Daljit Singh said.
"Manpreet is a humble and good man, and his arrest had all along been a mistake."
Daljit Singh, who is also the family spokesman, said the children were "extremely delighted" by the decision and eager to see their father again.
The news of Manpreet’s arrest provoked widespread condemnation within the Sikh community in New Zealand and his acquittal has proved his innocence.
A spokesman for the community, on the condition of anonymity, expressed dismay at the India Governments unjustified and malicious efforts to brand peace loving Sikhs as terrorists despite the fact that the same government is rewarding people involved in the 1984 Sikh Genocide with Cabinet positions. "Despite the testimony of hundreds of witnesses not a single Congress leader has been convicted for organising the attack on Sikhs during November 1984 which left 3000 innocent Sikhs brutally murdered in broad daylight, in the presence of the Delhi police with the connivance of the
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