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Under Sl. Nos. 89/261 and 90/262, the list identifies two cremations carried out on 25 November 1990 by SHO Surinder Singh of Valtoha police station under FIR No. 125/90. They are of: [1] Kuldeep Singh, s/o Puran Singh, r/o Ran Singhwala, and [2] Beer Singh s/o Surbaksh Singh, r/o Chatiwind. The postmortem reports are marked as BBS 2/90 and BBS 3/90. The cause of death is given as “police encounter”.
The Committee has the following information in the case of Kuldeep Singh through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01536. The main informant is the victim’s father Pooran Singh.
Twenty-two year old Kuldeep Singh, s/o Pooran Singh and Ranjit Kaur, was an automobile mechanic, resident of village Ram Singh Wala, post office Bhangala, under Valtoha police station, in Patti subdivision of Amritsar district. He was unmarried and lived with his parents.
Until 1989, Kuldeep, a baptized Sikh, never faced any harassment from the police. In that year, the police became suspicious that he may be maintaining ties with militants and helping them cross into Pakistan since the village Ram Singh Wala is very close to the border. The police started raiding his house to arrest him, and Kuldeep, fearing torture, started staying away.
In the evening of 24 November 1990, around 4 p.m., Valtoha police came to Kuldeep’s house in his village and took his father Pooran Singh, brother Virsa Singh and a neighbor along with them to Puthiawali village where two dead bodies were lying in the fields. One of them was of Kuldeep Singh. The other body was of Veer Singh who lived at Chatiwind in Amritsar city. After their identification, the police asked Pooran Singh to come to Patti the next day where, after the postmortem, the bodies were cremated under police supervision. The family members attended the cremation and carried out the rituals.
On the basis of the fact that the Valtoha police came to his house and got him to identify the dead bodies, Kuldeep’s father thinks that his son had been killed following his interrogation. ')"
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