There was also an application under order 33 Rule 1 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure for permission of the Court to sue the petitioners and the Respondent No.
The suit claims damages of Rs.1,000 Crores for causing loss to movable and immovable properties of the various Gurdwaras being administered and managed by the Plaintiff No.
1 under the provisions of the Punjab Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925, during the period from June to September 1984, by the defendants, their employees, servants and agents by making a deliberate, unprovoked, unwarranted, unannounced, wanton and catastrophic attack by the various armed servants and employees of the defendants on the Gurdwaras in the Golden Temple, Amritsar and various other Gurdwaras in the State of Punjab.
CIVIL ORIGINAL.
K. Banerji, Solicitor General, A.K. Ganguli, R.D. Agar vala, and Miss Sushma Relhan for the Petitioners.
Hardev Singh, S.S. Sood, Bishamber Lal and R.S. Sodhi for the Respondents.
1 and 2 i.e. Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar and Sardar Gurcharan Singh Tohra, President, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar.
It also sought mandatory injunction directing the defendants and their principal functionaries to tender unqualified apology before the Sikh Sangat for causing mental, sentimental, social and spiritual setback and also for causing deep sense of injury to the honour and self respect of Sikhs who are law abiding citizens.
The Judgement of the Court was delivered by SABYASACHI MUKHARJI, J. This is an application for transfer under Section 25 of the Code of Civil Procedure filed by Union of India seeking transfer of a suit instituted before the Court of Senior Sub Judge, Amritsar by Respondents Nos.
