Legal Battles

* National Human Rights Commission, Matter of Illegal Cremations
In January 1995, Jaswant Singh Khalra and Jaspal Singh Dhillon filed a writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court to impel it to investigate their discovery of mass illegal cremations in three crematoria in Amritsar district-one out of 17 districts in Punjab. The High Court dismissed the petition on grounds of vagueness, and they moved the Supreme Court. Before the Supreme Court could hear the matter, armed commandos of the Punjab Police abducted Khalra on September 6, 1995, from outside of his house. The Committee for Information and Initiative in Punjab (CCIP) moved the Supreme Court of India to demand a comprehensive inquiry.

* People's Commission
On 10 December 1997, the Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab (CCDP) called on the Punjab government to set up a Truth Commission to investigate all complaints of human rights violations, as promised by the Akali Dal's February 1997 Election Manifesto. The importance of initiating a public discourse on past abuses, accountability and the culture of impunity was evident to the victims and activists. Besides the State's failure to acknowledge the scale of State violence in Punjab from 1984 to 1994, it had excluded an extraordinarily large number of people from the protections of law on the basis of their collective identity. An equally large number of people, in an antithetical stance in relation to that identity, participated in the perpetration of violence, directly, in auxiliary roles and as silent supporters.

* Other Legal Battles

On January 25, 1993, Kulwant Singh, his wife, and their two year old son disappeared at the hands of the Punjab Police. The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association went on strike demanding a judicial inquiry because of the police's white-wash of the incident.

* “DISAPPEARED:” CREMATION GROUNDS

The cases of ‘disappeared’ persons has been a source of constant concern for all human rights groups working in Punjab. An estimated 2000 families from the district of Amritsar alone, wait agonisingly for the return of their near and dear ones. Some families, who cannot bear the uncertainty any more, just want to know if their son, brother, husband or daughter is dead or alive so that they can perform the last religious rites and accept the tragedy as the will of God.

* December 12, 1996 Supreme Court Order Referring
the Matter of Illegal Cremations to the NHRC

* ORDER ON THE PRELIMINARY ISSUES

In two writ petitions filed before the Supreme Court of India in W.P. (Crl.) No. 497/95 Paramjit Kaur Vs. State of Punjab and others; and Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 447/95 Initiative on Punjab Committee for Information and Initiative Vs. State of Punjab

* NHRC Order

We are called upon to examine the true scope of inquiry which the National Human Rights Commission is required to undertake under the remit of the Supreme Court's order dated 12th December

* NHRC PROCEEDING

* CCDP Press Release

The Committee for Coordination on Disappearances in Punjab was organized in November 1997 for the purpose of investigating allegations of abuses of the law committed by various agents of the Indian government against its own citizens in Punjab

Peoples’ Commission on Human Rights Violations in Punjab:

Why? And for What?

RULES OF THE PEOPLES' COMMISSION
ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN PUNJAB

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR THE STATES OF
PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
In CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 14133 OF 1998

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
AT CHANDIGARH

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE IN GENEVA
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR THE STATES OF
PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
In CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 14133 OF 1998

IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATES OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
AT CHANDIGARH

HIGH COURT ORDER
BANNIN PEOPLE’S COMMISSION
CIVIL WRIT PETITION

By this order, we are disposing of Civil Writ Petition Nos. 14133, 16608 and 17121 of 1998 as common questions of law and fact are involved in the same. These petitions have been filed primarily for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus to the Union of India (respondent no.

KULWANT SINGH ADVOCATE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

This appeal is a sequel to an unfortunate occurrence dated January 25, 1993, wherein Kulwant Singh, Advocate, practising at the District Courts, Ropar, his wife and a child aged about two years were alleged to have been abducted and murdered. The lawyer fraternity in general and the advocates practising at the High Court and the District Courts in the States of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh were not satisfied with the police investigation.

Kulwant Singh Compensation Case

This Court by the order dated December 7, 1993 directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate into the mysterious and most tragic abduction and alleged murder of Kulwant Singh, Advocate, his wife and their two year old child. This Court noticed the inaction on the part of the High Court in the following words

Protection Order for Punjab Human Rights Lawyers

A letter-petition dated May 29, 1994 by Navkiran Singh and 16 other advocates practising in the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh and various other places in Punjab voicing their concern over the kidnapping/elimination of advocates in the State of Punjab was addressed to the Chief Justice of India.

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