Mehmoodpura is a village very close to India’s border with Pakistan

Under Sl. No. 75/201, the list identifies the 2 August 1990 cremation of Mulagar Singh, s/o Hardeep Singh, r/o Mehmoodpura, carried out by SHO Paramdeep Singh of Bhikhiwind police under FIR No. 77/90. The postmortem report is marked as MS 15/90 and the cause of death is described as “police encounter”.

The Committee has the following information in this case through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01485. The main informant is the victim’s brother Jatinder Singh Sadh.

Thirty-year old Malagar Singh, son of Hardeep Singh and Nirmal Kaur, was a farmer resident of Mehmoodpura village under Valtoha police station in Patti subdivision of Amritsar district. Malagar was a baptized Sikh and was married. His widow has since returned to her parents’ house.

Mehmoodpura is a village very close to India’s border with Pakistan and the police suspected Malagar of engaging in smuggling. He had been arrested and interrogated a number of times in the past. With the onset of the militant movement in Punjab, the police began to suspect that he helped militants cross the border to Pakistan where some of them had taken shelter. The police detained him, interrogated him under torture and implicated him in several cases under TADA. This pattern of police behavior continued even after he convinced the trial court to release him on bail. After one more experience of custodial torture, Malagar left his home to join the militant underground. The police began to harass his family members, especially targeting his brother Dilbagh Singh.

Dilbagh was arrested and killed along with Bhagwant Singh of Madara village under Khalra police station in April or May 1989. The family members do not remember other details. His dead body was returned to the family for its cremation.

On 1 August 1990, the Bhikhiwind police arrested Malagar from a house in Makhi village close to Margindpura and killed him that same night in a staged encounter near village Sadaran. After reading the report about the encounter in a newspaper, which identified Malagar by his name, the family members went to Bhikhiwind police station to claim his dead body. The police officials, however, refused to talk to them and they were unable to find out where his body had been cremated. ')"

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