Dokument #1126037
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Information on the above-mentioned subject
is limited among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
In a 28 April 1997 letter sent to the DIRB
by electronic mail, a professor specializing on the Sikhs in Punjab
who teaches at the Department of Political Science at the
University of Missouri in Colombia, Missouri, was of the opinion
that the 14 March 1997 bombing near the Jalandhar railway station
(see the attachment article to Response to Information Request
IND26731.E of 2 May 1997), would have sparked intensified police
surveillance in Gurdaspur district. However, he stated that he was
unaware of specific police activity in and around the city of
Batala at present (ibid.).
According to a 5 April 1997 Associated
Press (AP) report, 27 kilos of heroin was seized from a villager in
Gurdaspur district. The name of the village, however, was not
identified in the report (ibid.).
No information could be found on Jharianwal
village among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of
sources consulted in researching this Information request.
Reference
Associated Press (AP). 5 April 1997.
"Police Seize Heroin Near Pakistan Border ." (NEXIS)
Professor of political science,
University of Missouri, Colombia. 28 April 1997. Internet
electronic mail sent to the DIRB.
Attachment
Associated Press (AP). 5 April 1997.
"Police Seize Heroin Near Pakistan Border ." (NEXIS)
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International Report
1996. 1996.
Amnesty International. March 1996.
Amnesty International and India.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1996. 1997.
DIRB Country File. 1997-.
The Europa World Year Book
1996. 1996.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Daily Reports.
Human Rights Watch World Report
1997. 1996.
India Today [New Delhi].
1997.
News from Asia Watch/HRW. April
1996.
Human Rights Watch (HRW). April 1996.
Communal Violence and the Denial of Justice.
Three sources consulted did not provide
information on the above-mentioned subject.
On-line search of news articles. (NEXIS
and Internet)
* The above-mentioned sources do not
include the sources consulted in DIRB's documentary India
section.