Under Sl. No. 83/246, the list identifies the 10 September 1990 cremation of Darshan Singh, s/o Jarnail Singh, r/o Sabra, carried out by SI Major Singh of Patti police station under FIR No. 171/90. The postmortem report is said to be “not available” and the cause of death is given as “police encounter”.

The Committee has the following information in this case through its Incident-Report No. CCDP/01673. The main informant is the victim’s widow Kashmir Kaur.

Twenty-eight year old Darshan Singh, son of Jarnail Singh and Jagir Kaur, was a young farmer from Sabhra village, Patti Bhane Ki, in Patti subdivision of Amritsar district. The son of a prosperous farmer, Darshan was not involved with any political or militant organizations. He was married to Kashmir Kaur and had a son Lakhwinder Singh.

In the first week of September 1990, Darshan’s father-in-law died at his village Saidon under Patti police station. Darshan accompanied his wife Kashmir Kaur to her village and stayed at her parents’ house for some days. On 9 September 1990, Darshan and two other young men of village Saidon went on a motorcycle and were about to reach a petrol pump at village Bhogupur when a group of police officers, led by SHO Major Singh of Patti police station, suspected them of being militants and shot at them. Darshan, on the pillion of the motorcycle, was hit by a bullet and fell down dead. The police took Darshan’s two companions into custody. Residents of Saidon village found out about the incident and immediately informed Darshan’s parents. They went to Patti police station to claim the dead body, but SHO Major Singh refused to return the body and carried out the cremation.

The police released a statement to the press to claim that a militant named Darshan Singh had been killed in an encounter. ')"

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