TOI, AMRITSAR/LUDHIANA: On January 8, Sukhwinder Singh showed extraordinary courage when he chased and confronted two youth near East London’s Barking station, after seeing them mugging a young woman. He was stabbed by one of them and died in hospital. He was subsequently declared a hero by London Metropolitan Police.
On Friday,Sikh community bestowed upon him another honour when the Jathedar of Sikhism’s highest temporal seat, the Akal Takht, declared him ‘Sikh Quom da Shaheed’ (Martyr of the Sikh Panth). The honour came a day after his 10-year-old son, Gurinder, lit the funeral pyre of his father at Dholanwal.
While conferring the rare honour, the Sikh clergy also declared that Sukhwinder’s portrait would be put up in the Sikh museum located inside the Golden Temple.
