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Chapter21 Punjab I. Overview Ruled by the Indian National Congress, Punjab continued to suffer from impunity for human rights violations institutionalised during the counter insurgency operations in 1980s and early 1990s. Although on 11 November 2004, National Human Rights Commission ordered the Punjab Government to pay compensation of Rs 2.72 crores to the kin of 109 persons who had died in custody of the police during the insurgency, the NHRC declined to bring in its ambit all the “police killings” for inquiry and
INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Punjab making public various reports of inquiries by Central Bureau of Investigation regarding 2,097 cases referred to it by the Supreme Court for deciding the compensation aspect. 1 The perpetrators responsible for disappearance of human rights activist, Jaswant Singh Kalra remained at large. Although, Punjab has not been facing an internal armed conflict at present, Punjab Police personnel were responsible for gross and widespread human rights violations including arbitrary deprivation of the right to life, enforced disappearance, arbitrary detention, torture etc. Punjab continued to witness large number of custodial deaths - both in judicial and police custody as a result of torture. The Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) registered 87 cases of custodial deaths from 1 January to 30 November 2004. 2 On 10 June 2004, Jaspal Singh, a farmer of border village Dhunna in Amritsar district was killed at Kalra Police station of Tarn Taran district. 3 Torture is endemic and a part of the administration of justice. The Punjab Police and the Punjab Vigilance Bureau personnel allegedly harassed the family members of Jaskaran Singh, whose petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court led to the quashing of illegal selection of seven Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), including sons of the Chief Minister’s media advisor B I S Chahal and Ferozepur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harinder Singh Chahal, on 15 October 2004. 4 198 Earlier on 8 October 2004, the Vigilance Department registered a false case at Ferozepur, accusing Kheta Singh, the 68year-old father and a brother of Jaskaran Singh of helping a woman get old-age pension of Rs 200 a month though her husband allegedly owned eight acres land. Vigilance department arrested both and detained them illegally for 10 days. 5 The only action taken by the state government was the transfer of Ferozepur Vigilance SP, Inderjit Singh Randhawa on 25 October 2004. This is despite the fact that Chief Minister Amarinder Singh himself regretted the arrest of Kheta Singh. 6 Prisons in Punjab have virtually turned into chambers of torture. Undertrial Rocky of Amritsar Central Security Jail was tattooed “Yeh Chor Hai” (this one is a thief) on the night of 30 June 2004 for demanding food according to the jail manual. A deputy Superintendent and a jail doctor of Jalandar Central Jail inscribed “choorraa” 7 (lower caste) on the back of another under-trial and a Dalit, Malkiat Singh on the night of 2 July 2004 for demanding medical treatment. Relatives of ailing inmates needed to bribe the medical staff of the jails to get their kin referred to civil hospital for proper medical treatment. 8 Women continued to face violence. Rano of Bhattian village in Patiala district allegedly became a victim of “honour killings” for eloping with a boy from another community. 9 The family members, especially women of the migrant workers, faced sexual assault and harassment.
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Contents Preface v Andhra Pradesh 1
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