Under Sl. No. 62/154, the list identifies the 11 November 1989 cremation of Sukhwinder Singh alias Gaddi, s/o Harnam Singh Jat, r/o Marar, carried out by SI Harmail Singh of Harike police station under FIR No. 94/89. The postmortem report is marked as RKS?28/89 and the death is attributed to “firearm injuries”.

The Committee has the following information through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01560. The main informant is the victim’s brother Karam Singh.

Thirty-two year old Sukhwinder Singh alias Maafi, son of Harnam Singh and Kartar Kaur, was a farmer resident of village Marar under Harike police station in Patti subdivision of Amritsar district. He was married to Shindo and was the father of Gurmeet Kaur who is now in her early twenties.

Sukhwinder was very upset after Operation Blue Star and began to associate with people thinking of initiating an armed resistance against the Indian government because of its atrocities against the Sikhs. In 1989, Sukhwinder left his home to join the militant underground.

On 11 November 1989, Sukhwinder came home to visit his family. When he was leaving after a brief visit, he was trapped outside his village Marar at around 1 p.m. by a joint force of the CRPF and Harike police. As Sukhwinder tried to escape, he was shot dead. Surprisingly, the SHO of Harike handed the dead body, after the postmortem, to the family members who carried out the cremation at the village in the presence of many people.

However, the CBI’s list shows the cremation to have been performed at Patti cremation ground by SI Harmail Singh. ')"

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