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'Under Sl. No. 112/329, the list identifies the 07 February 1991 cremation of Mahal Singh, s/o Gurmej Singh, r/o Talwandi Soba Singh, carried out by SHO Surinder Singh of Valtoha police station under FIR No. 15/91. The postmortem report is marked as MS/91 and the cause of death is given as “encounter”.
The Committee has the following information in this case through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01690. The main informant is the victim’s mother Ratan Kaur.
Eighteen-year old Mehal Singh, son of Gurmej Singh and Ratan Kaur, from village Talwandi Sobha Singh, post office Ghariala, in Patti subdivision of Amritsar district, was the only the only surviving son of his widowed mother. His father Gurmej Singh, recognized as an Indian freedom fighter, was an officer of the Home Guards and had recruited his elder son in the same service. However, his elder son died suddenly after remaining feverish for some days and, in the shock, Gurmej Singh also expired. Mehal Singh had to assume the family responsibilities.
Towards the end of 1989, Patti police would irregularly arrest Mehal Singh for interrogation. They tortured him and implicated him in a case under TADA. He was acquitted by a court and then he joined the Home Guards. According to his mother Ratan Kaur, in the middle of 1990, Mehal Singh became involved with a group of militants. He quit the Home Guards and started remaining away from home.
In the evening of 6 February 1991, Mehal Singh and one of his associates were surrounded by the Valtoha police near a Gurdwara at village Thatha. Mehal Singh was killed in an encounter that followed. Ratan Kaur found out about the incident the next morning and, accompanied by members of the village council, went to Valtoha police station to claim her son’s dead body. But the police declared the body unclaimed and carried out the cremation at Patti cremation ground. The family members were not even allowed to attend. ')"
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