Kuldeep Singh had no political or militant affiliations and had never been arrested before.

Under Sl. Nos. 48/121 and 49/122, the list identifies two cremations carried out by SHO Makhan Singh of Harike police station on 11 August 1989 under FIR No. 61/89. They are of [1] Kuldeep Singh, s/o Kartar Singh, r/o Chola Sahib, and [2] Jassa Singh, s/o Dharam Singh, also r/o Chola Sahib. The postmortem reports are marked as VKA 73/89 and VKA 74/89. The cause of death in both cases is mentioned to be “police encounter”.

The Committee has the following information in these two cases through its Incident-Report Form Nos. CCDP/01414 and 01415. The main informants are Kuldeep’s brother Swaran Singh and Jassa Singh’s mother Surjit Kaur.

Kuldeep Singh, s/o Kartar Singh and Surjit Kaur, r/o Chola Sahib, Patti Bande Ki, Sarhalli Kalan in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district, was a 19 year old boy who worked as a laborer and had gotten married just before his enforced disappearance. He had no children and his widow has since remarried.

Kuldeep Singh had no political or militant affiliations and had never been arrested before. On the 23rd or 24th of July 1989, a group of police officials from Chola Sahib police post raided the house and asked for Kuldeep Singh, who was not home. The police then picked up Kuldeep’s elder brother Swaran Singh and kept him in illegal custody at the police station. The next day several village elders went to the police station and pleaded for Swaran Singh’s release. He was released on the 27th of July after he gave the commitment to trace his brother and produce him before the police.

On 28 July 1989, Swaran Singh took Kuldeep Singh to the police post at Chola Sahib where ASI Baldev Raj and head constable Kuldeep Singh took him into their custody with the assurance that Kuldeep Singh would be released after his interrogation. According to them, Kuldeep Singh was going to be interrogated at Sarhalli Kalan police station. Three days later, Kuldeep Singh, Jassa Singh, s/o Dharam Singh, and Bakhshish Singh, s/o Natha Singh, also residents of Chola Sahib were produced before a court in Tarn Taran which granted eight days of police remand for further investigations. Sub-Inspector Surinder Pal, the SHO of Sarhalli Kalan police station, assured the family members of Kuldeep Singh that they had nothing to fear since the matter was now before a court.

On 10 August 1989, local newspapers reported an encounter in which both Jassa Singh and Kuldeep Singh supposedly died. According to the report, the police were taking them to recover weapons when a group of militants launched an attack hoping to rescue them. The police fought back, and in the cross fire, the two militants in custody died.

After reading the newspaper report, the family members went to police station Harike where they were told that the dead bodies of Jassa Singh and Kuldeep Singh had been cremated at Patti cremation ground.

Jassa Singh, s/o Dharam Singh, reported killed in the same encounter, was an 18 year old mazhabi Sikh who lived in Patti Dolo ki locality of the same village. During his detention at Sarhalli Kalan police station, his family members were bringing him food everyday and had been assured by Sub-Inspector Surinder Pal that Jassa Singh would not suffer any harm. ')"

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