Under Sl. No. 40/108, the list identifies the 14 July 1989 cremation of Baldev Singh, s/o Jagmohan Singh, r/o Bhikiwind, carried out by Inspector Paramjeet Singh of Bhikhiwind police station under FIR No. 52/89. The postmortem report is marked as VKA 60/89 and cause of death is mentioned as “firearm injuries”.

The Committee has the following information in this case through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/00645. The main informant is the victim’s father Karnail Singh.

Baldev Singh, alias Deba, s/o Karnail Singh alias Jagmohan Singh from Patti Dass Ki, Bhikhiwind in Patti subdivision of Amritsar district, was a 24 year old farmer who was unmarried and lived with his parents.

The police suspected Baldev, a baptized Sikh, of maintaining contacts with the Khalistani militant organizations and implicated him in several criminal cases, also under TADA. Baldev came out on bail and, thereafter, spent much time attending the various court proceedings.

On 13 July 1989, Baldev, accompanied by his mother Harbans Kaur, boarded a bus at Bhikhiwind for Patti as he had a court date to attend. On the way, near village Boor Chand, a mixed group of officials from the Bhikhiwind police and the Central Reserve Police Force boarded the bus, and asked Baldev Singh to accompany them. His mother asked the officials to explain why and where they were taking her son. But they did not give any information. The police forced Baldev Singh into a police vehicle and drove away. The same day, the police claimed to have killed a terrorist named Baldev Singh in an encounter. His body was shown to the family members for identification at Bhikhiwind police station. But the cremation itself was carried out by the police at Patti cremation ground.

According to Baldev’s father Karnail Singh, alias Jagmohan Singh, the police had mistaken his son for a known militant known as Pinder, s/o Mahanbir Singh, r/o Mari Saur Singh, and killed him without ascertaining his actual identity. He also suggests that after killing his son, the police officials took the award announced for capturing or killing Pinder who, in his knowledge, still lives in the United States.')"

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