Puran Singh, r/o Bhorsi, carried out by ASI Aatma Singh of Verowal - Committee for Information and Initiative on Punjab (CIIP)

Under Sl. No. 6/018, the list identifies the 18 October 1987 cremation of Narinder Singh, alias Pratap Singh, s/o Puran Singh, r/o Bhorsi, carried out by ASI Aatma Singh of Verowal police station under FIR No. 204/87. The postmortem report is marked as KS?35/87. The cause of death is stated to be unavailable.

The Committee has the following information in this case through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01108. The main informant is the victim’s father Pooran Singh.

Twenty-six year old Narinder Singh, son of Pooran Singh and Prasin Kaur, was a resident of Bhorchhi Brahmana village under Jandiala Guru police station in Baba Bakala subdivison of Amritsar district. His father did not own any land and made his livelihood by working as a daily wage laborer. Narinder Singh himself gave up school to join a Nihang Sikh order. By virtue of this association, he also used to be known as Nindi Nihang although the CBI’s List mentions his alias as Pratap Singh. Narinder was unmarried.

In late 1986, Narinder Singh had been detained and questioned under torture for his suspected connections with armed underground militant groups. Harcharan Singh Suri, SHO of Jandiala Guru Police station, where Narinder Singh was illegally detained for more than a month, had supervised his interrogation and then implicated him in a criminal case under the Arms Act. According to the family members, the SHO had done this to save him from summary execution in custody after several prominent persons of the village pleaded with him for mercy. Narinder Singh received a bail order that released him from jail.

In October 1987, several months after this incident, Narinder Singh reportedly went to Tarn Taran to celebrate ‘Amavas’, the 15th day of the dark half of the lunar month especially important to Nihang Sikhs, at its Gurdwara. Some days after his departure for Tarn Taran, one of his colleagues, Sukhdev Singh Nihang, who lived in Allowal village, visited Narinder Singh’s parents at Bhorchi Brahmana village and informed them that the police, led by SHO Onkar Singh, had arrested their son outside Tarn Taran Gurdwara.

In spite of receiving this information, Narinder Singh’s parents feared the police and did not take any action for his rescue. Some days later, they again received information that the CIA staff at Amrtisar had subjected Narinder Singh to brutal torture. The information was provided by some young Sikhs who had also been illegally detained by the CIA staff in Amritsar and had seen Narinder Singh. Baba Nirmal Das, the manager of Dera Baba Shri Chand, a Nihang Sikh camp, also informed the family that their son was in the illegal custody of Amritsar police.

In the third week of October 1987, Punjabi newspapers carried a report about a supposed armed encounter between the police force and a group of four to five Sikh militants, culminating in their deaths. Narinder Singh’s name was in the list of killed militants. The police carried out the cremation without informing the parents. The CBI’s list mentions the cause of death to be “unavailable”.

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