Chandigarh, August 7 SIKH organisations, human rights groups and some political parties on Sunday decided to take the issue of the allegedly unlawful arrest of a city woman, Manjot Kaur, by Punjab police to its logical conclusion.

In the fourth in a series of conventions, the Punjab Rights Forum (PRF) — an umbrella organisation of several of such Sikh and human rights organisations — attacked Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh and Punjab police chief Sarbjit Singh Virk for their ‘‘approving the terror tactics’’ to implicate Sikhs in false cases and thereby ‘‘create the bogey of terrorism for the electoral benefit of the Congress’’.

In the wake of the arrest of Sector 34 resident Manjot Kaur on July 26 by Punjab police personnel — an act the Sikh bodies and human rights groups claim was illegal — there has been widespread opposition to it and apprehensions about the designs of Punjab police.

Sunday’s PRF convention at the Sector 46 gurudwara was participated, among others, by the Shiromani Khalsa Panchayat, Dal Khalsa, Shiromani Khalsa Das, Human Rights and Democracy Forum, Lawyers for Human Rights International, International Human Rights Organisation, Damdami Taksal, Punjab Human Rights Organisation, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), SAD (Longwal), SAD (1920), Sikh Students Federation and various factions of BKU.

The convention sought the immediate release of Manjot Kaur and slammed Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh for approving the ‘‘terror tactics’’ applied by Punjab DGP SS Virk to ‘‘implicate Sikhs in false cases to create the bogey of terrorism for the electoral benefits of the Congress’’. PRF also accused Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Gen. SF Rodrigues (retd) of inaction in Kaur’s case.

Sikh Nari Manch president Bibi Harjinder Kaur said the PRF has decided to stage a series of demonstrations at the District Courts of Fatehgarh Sahib on August 11. RPF also welcomed the reported visit on August 17 and 18 of the National Commission for Minorities to Chandigarh as it would give RPF an opportunity to lodge individual and collective complaints against violation of minority rights.