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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 132473" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: #002060">August 29, 2010 </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: #002060"><span style="font-size: 18px">Suspect sought in Guru Nanak Temple shooting</span> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="color: #002060">By Anna Mehler Paperny</span></p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>From Monday's Globe and Mail</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #002060">Prominent Surrey contractor wounded in the leg in targeted shooting at Sikh wedding </span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span><span style="color: #002060">Police are seeing a suspect in a targeted weekend shooting in one of North America's largest Sikh temples.</span></p><p><span style="color: #002060">Police were called to Guru Nanak Temple in Surrey around 12:40 p.m. Saturday, where hundreds of people had gathered for a wedding hosted by local home appraiser Kultar Dhott.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Festivities were interrupted by gunshots coming from the temple parking lot. Responding to a flood of calls, Surrey RCMP arrived to find a man shot in the leg. He was rushed to the hospital and was stable but still hospitalized on Sunday.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Witnesses and friends say the man was 54-year-old Harjit Singh Atwal - a prominent Surrey contractor.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Minutes later, police cars surrounded the offices for Radio India and the lavish Surrey home of its general manager Maninder Singh Gill, where they blocked off the road and approached his house at the end of the 56th Street cul-de-sac with guns at the ready.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">\Suzanne Dennis, who has lived on the street for decades, arrived home Saturday afternoon to see the street cordoned off with yellow tape, and a pair of police vehicles blocking off the avenue for hours before leaving.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">RCMP, who say the shooting was targeted, have not confirmed that Mr. Gill is a person of interest in the case and will say only that they are seeking a single male suspect and a white, newer-model four-door sedan seen leaving the scene. No arrests had been made or charges laid by Sunday evening.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">But Gurpreet Singh, a newscaster at the Punjabi Radio India, says he has been in touch with Mr. Gill's family and believes his boss is the alleged shooter police are seeking.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Mr. Singh says the shooting is the result of a continuing feud he traces to an April visit to B.C. by Punjabi government minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan. An apparent insult directed at the minister by a man close to Mr. Atwal sparked an acrimonious barrage between Mr. Atwal and the radio station, Mr. Singh says.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Mr. Singh says does not know what happened to escalate a parking-lot argument into a shootout outside the temple, but said he thinks Mr. Gill would have fired only in self-defence.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"He's a very easygoing person; he doesn't lose his temper so easily," he said. "I can only speculate. Whatever I have heard is that people were trying to attack him and he acted in self-defence."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Mr. Gill, who has been called the "czar of Punjabi entertainment," has run Radio India since 1999, after making a name for himself as a promoter of Punjabi culture and music in Surrey.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Mr. Atwal is a former member of the militant International Youth Sikh Federation, a group he has since denounced. He campaigned earlier this year to get his name taken off blacklists the Indian government reserves for separatist groups, arguing he hasn't been involved in Khalistan (Sikh homeland) politics for years. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">A spate of violence in Sikh temples in B.C. and Ontario earlier this year - at least one of which involved a kirpan, the ceremonial dagger worn by Khalsa Sikhs - renewed debate over religious extremism, and the risks that the actions of a tiny minority would tarnish perceptions of thousands of others.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">But witnesses and community members emphasize this has more to do with personal arguments than religious politics. Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara was quick to distance itself from Saturday's shooting; the mother of Saturday's groom, who answered the phone at Mr. Dhott's Surrey home Sunday, said she and others inside the temple at the time have no idea what sparked the conflict.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"As far as we understand, it was a personal dispute that unfortunately found its way into the Gurdwara parking lot," said a statement released on behalf of temple president Bikramjit Singh Sandhar. "This event or the individuals involved have no connection with this Gurdwara and the Gurdwara strongly condemns this and every act of violence."</span></p><p><span style="color: #002060"> </span></p><p><span style="color: #002060"><strong>source:</strong> </span><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/suspect-sought-in-guru-nanak-temple-shooting/article1689558/" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #002060">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/suspect-sought-in-guru-nanak-temple-shooting/article1689558/</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">***********************************************************************</span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #002060">Shooting outside temple believed related to feud between businessmen, radio station</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #002060">By Kim Bolan And Todd Coyne, Vancouver Sun - August 30, 2010 </span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">A simmering feud between a Surrey radio station and two local businessmen turned violent Saturday when one of the men was shot in the leg outside the Guru Nanak temple. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Contractor Harjit Singh Atwal, 54, remained in hospital Sunday, recovering from a bullet wound to his thigh after the shooting in the temple parking lot about 12:30 p.m. Saturday.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Surrey RCMP have not publicly identified the suspect or made any arrest. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">But police did visit the Surrey offices of Radio India Saturday looking for managing director Maninder Singh Gill.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Atwal, an associate named Jaspal Atwal (no relation) and a third man, Harkirat Kular, filed a civil suit against Gill, Radio India and several of its journalists last month in relation to broadcasts in May they said were untrue and defamatory, according to a 16-page statement of claim obtained by The Vancouver Sun. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">And Gill and Radio India host Sukhminder Singh Cheema have filed complaints with the police over the past three months, claiming they have been threatened. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Radio India journalist Gurpreet Singh said Sunday that the dispute began after Radio India reported on an incident April 15 during which Jaspal Atwal is alleged to have threatened a local leader of the Akali Dal party, Balbir Chingiara, outside a news conference of a visiting Punjabi cabinet minister from the same party.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Online court records show a charge of uttering threats was sworn against Jaspal Atwal on April 16 in Surrey in relation to an incident a day earlier. He was released on $5,000 bail and is due back in Surrey Provincial Court on Sept. 7.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"When we reported this whole incident, from then on there has been tension between Radio India and the Atwals," Singh said. </span></p><p><span style="color: #002060">Singh was not at the temple when the shooting took place, so had only heard second-hand reports.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"Police did come to Radio India yesterday, but not today," Singh said Sunday. He said they were looking for Gill, who was not there.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Both Atwals were at Guru Nanak Saturday for a large wedding, attended by close to 1,000 guests. Gill was also there with his family.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Several wedding guests told The Sun that an argument inside the temple was followed by four shots fired in the parking lot outside.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Surrey RCMP Insp. Steve Wade said Saturday that "the shooting was targeted rather than a random act of violence."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"It was a relatively minor injury as far as gunshots go." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Wade said first responders found Atwal sitting on a couch behind the temple when they arrived. He was able to walk and talk and was taken immediately to an area hospital, Wade said. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">Guru Nanak officials said in a statement that the shooting had absolutely nothing to do with the wedding or the temple and was an "isolated incident." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"As far as we understand, it was a personal dispute that unfortunately found its way into the Gurdwara [temple] parking lot," the statement said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">"This event or the individuals involved have no connection with this Gurdwara and the Gurdwara strongly condemns this and every act of violence." </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">kbolan@{censored}; <a href="mailto:tcoyne@{censored}"><span style="color: #0068cf">tcoyne@{censored}</span></a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #002060">© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #002060"><strong>source: </strong></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.{censored}/news/Shooting+outside+temple+believed+related+feud+between+businessmen+radio/3459278/story.html" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #002060">http://www.{censored}/news/Shooting+outside+temple+believed+related+feud+between+businessmen+radio/3459278/story.html</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></u></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 132473, member: 884"] [COLOR=#002060]August 29, 2010 [/COLOR] [B][SIZE=6][COLOR=#002060][SIZE=5]Suspect sought in Guru Nanak Temple shooting[/SIZE] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][SIZE=6] [/SIZE] [COLOR=#002060]By Anna Mehler Paperny[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]From Monday's Globe and Mail[/B][/COLOR] [B][SIZE=5][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3][COLOR=#002060]Prominent Surrey contractor wounded in the leg in targeted shooting at Sikh wedding [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=5] [/SIZE][COLOR=#002060]Police are seeing a suspect in a targeted weekend shooting in one of North America's largest Sikh temples.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Police were called to Guru Nanak Temple in Surrey around 12:40 p.m. Saturday, where hundreds of people had gathered for a wedding hosted by local home appraiser Kultar Dhott.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Festivities were interrupted by gunshots coming from the temple parking lot. Responding to a flood of calls, Surrey RCMP arrived to find a man shot in the leg. He was rushed to the hospital and was stable but still hospitalized on Sunday.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Witnesses and friends say the man was 54-year-old Harjit Singh Atwal - a prominent Surrey contractor.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Minutes later, police cars surrounded the offices for Radio India and the lavish Surrey home of its general manager Maninder Singh Gill, where they blocked off the road and approached his house at the end of the 56th Street cul-de-sac with guns at the ready.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]\Suzanne Dennis, who has lived on the street for decades, arrived home Saturday afternoon to see the street cordoned off with yellow tape, and a pair of police vehicles blocking off the avenue for hours before leaving.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]RCMP, who say the shooting was targeted, have not confirmed that Mr. Gill is a person of interest in the case and will say only that they are seeking a single male suspect and a white, newer-model four-door sedan seen leaving the scene. No arrests had been made or charges laid by Sunday evening.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]But Gurpreet Singh, a newscaster at the Punjabi Radio India, says he has been in touch with Mr. Gill's family and believes his boss is the alleged shooter police are seeking.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Mr. Singh says the shooting is the result of a continuing feud he traces to an April visit to B.C. by Punjabi government minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan. An apparent insult directed at the minister by a man close to Mr. Atwal sparked an acrimonious barrage between Mr. Atwal and the radio station, Mr. Singh says.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Mr. Singh says does not know what happened to escalate a parking-lot argument into a shootout outside the temple, but said he thinks Mr. Gill would have fired only in self-defence.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"He's a very easygoing person; he doesn't lose his temper so easily," he said. "I can only speculate. Whatever I have heard is that people were trying to attack him and he acted in self-defence."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Mr. Gill, who has been called the "czar of Punjabi entertainment," has run Radio India since 1999, after making a name for himself as a promoter of Punjabi culture and music in Surrey.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Mr. Atwal is a former member of the militant International Youth Sikh Federation, a group he has since denounced. He campaigned earlier this year to get his name taken off blacklists the Indian government reserves for separatist groups, arguing he hasn't been involved in Khalistan (Sikh homeland) politics for years. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]A spate of violence in Sikh temples in B.C. and Ontario earlier this year - at least one of which involved a kirpan, the ceremonial dagger worn by Khalsa Sikhs - renewed debate over religious extremism, and the risks that the actions of a tiny minority would tarnish perceptions of thousands of others.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]But witnesses and community members emphasize this has more to do with personal arguments than religious politics. Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara was quick to distance itself from Saturday's shooting; the mother of Saturday's groom, who answered the phone at Mr. Dhott's Surrey home Sunday, said she and others inside the temple at the time have no idea what sparked the conflict.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"As far as we understand, it was a personal dispute that unfortunately found its way into the Gurdwara parking lot," said a statement released on behalf of temple president Bikramjit Singh Sandhar. "This event or the individuals involved have no connection with this Gurdwara and the Gurdwara strongly condemns this and every act of violence."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060][B]source:[/B] [/COLOR][URL="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/suspect-sought-in-guru-nanak-temple-shooting/article1689558/"][U][COLOR=#002060]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/suspect-sought-in-guru-nanak-temple-shooting/article1689558/[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [COLOR=#002060]***********************************************************************[/COLOR] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#002060]Shooting outside temple believed related to feud between businessmen, radio station[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B][COLOR=#002060]By Kim Bolan And Todd Coyne, Vancouver Sun - August 30, 2010 [/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=#002060]A simmering feud between a Surrey radio station and two local businessmen turned violent Saturday when one of the men was shot in the leg outside the Guru Nanak temple. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Contractor Harjit Singh Atwal, 54, remained in hospital Sunday, recovering from a bullet wound to his thigh after the shooting in the temple parking lot about 12:30 p.m. Saturday.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Surrey RCMP have not publicly identified the suspect or made any arrest. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]But police did visit the Surrey offices of Radio India Saturday looking for managing director Maninder Singh Gill.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Atwal, an associate named Jaspal Atwal (no relation) and a third man, Harkirat Kular, filed a civil suit against Gill, Radio India and several of its journalists last month in relation to broadcasts in May they said were untrue and defamatory, according to a 16-page statement of claim obtained by The Vancouver Sun. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]And Gill and Radio India host Sukhminder Singh Cheema have filed complaints with the police over the past three months, claiming they have been threatened. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Radio India journalist Gurpreet Singh said Sunday that the dispute began after Radio India reported on an incident April 15 during which Jaspal Atwal is alleged to have threatened a local leader of the Akali Dal party, Balbir Chingiara, outside a news conference of a visiting Punjabi cabinet minister from the same party.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Online court records show a charge of uttering threats was sworn against Jaspal Atwal on April 16 in Surrey in relation to an incident a day earlier. He was released on $5,000 bail and is due back in Surrey Provincial Court on Sept. 7.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"When we reported this whole incident, from then on there has been tension between Radio India and the Atwals," Singh said. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Singh was not at the temple when the shooting took place, so had only heard second-hand reports.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"Police did come to Radio India yesterday, but not today," Singh said Sunday. He said they were looking for Gill, who was not there.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Both Atwals were at Guru Nanak Saturday for a large wedding, attended by close to 1,000 guests. Gill was also there with his family.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Several wedding guests told The Sun that an argument inside the temple was followed by four shots fired in the parking lot outside.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Surrey RCMP Insp. Steve Wade said Saturday that "the shooting was targeted rather than a random act of violence."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"It was a relatively minor injury as far as gunshots go." [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Wade said first responders found Atwal sitting on a couch behind the temple when they arrived. He was able to walk and talk and was taken immediately to an area hospital, Wade said. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]Guru Nanak officials said in a statement that the shooting had absolutely nothing to do with the wedding or the temple and was an "isolated incident." [/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"As far as we understand, it was a personal dispute that unfortunately found its way into the Gurdwara [temple] parking lot," the statement said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#002060]"This event or the individuals involved have no connection with this Gurdwara and the Gurdwara strongly condemns this and every act of violence." 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