Canadian rights group offers to help mentally-disturbed siblings

BLAIR (Tarn Taran): There is some sigh of relief for the family members of Gursahib Singh and his sister Kuldip Kaur, who became mentally unstable after they saw their father being shot by terrorists in cold blood. A Canadian human rights group has announced to take up their case for seeking medical help and support as their family is not in a position to bear the cost of their treatment.
Their mother Simarjit Kaur, who has to support 5 children, is not well-off to provide medical treatment to Gursahib and Kuldip, who often turn violent attacking each other and rest of the family members, thus forcing her to tie them with chains. "I know it is not right, but nobody came to my help for the treatment of my children. I had to do menial jobs to make a living and couldn't leave them home fearing they could attack each other so I had no option but to chain them," said Simarjit, who expressed gratitude to the South Asian Human Rights Group of Canada Society whose case coordinator Sital Kaler was here to take up the case.
She informed that in 1989, when militancy was at its peak in Punjab, terrorists had ordered people not to put on lights or leave their dogs in the open after sunset. "But one day we forgot to chain our dog and terrorists came to our house and shot my husband Amar Singh in front of my children," she said, adding that the incident left an indelible mark on the young brains of Gursahib and Kuldip and they lost their mental balance.
Blair sarpanch Harjit Singh informed that Harpal Singh and Gurwail Singh, the other two sons of Simarjit, do sundry jobs while daughter Baljit Kaur has been married. He said they tried to help the family as much as they could. Justifying tying the brother-sister with chains, he said, "When they are restive, they fight and attack each other."
Kaler, who provided financial help of Rs 11,000 to Simarjit, said their society would aggressively take up the case of her children in Canada. "We want some NGO to adopt them and provide them best of medical facility either in India or some other country." He said the rights group had also written to the Punjab government to provide compensation to the family and offer jobs to the other two sons of Simarjit.