131 - 132. Under Sl. Nos. 305/478 and 396/479, the list shows two 30 July 1991 cremations carried out by Suba Singh of Jhabbal police station under FIR No. 104/91. The postmortem report numbers are MSJ-42/91 and MSJ-43/91. The cause of death is given as "fire arm injuries".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01402 reveals the following information in these cases. The main informant is the victim's widow Shanti.
Forty-five year old Jeet, a migrant Hindu agricultural worker from Uttar Pradesh, had for several years been living in village Panjwar Khurd, post office Panjwar, Mazhabian Di Thathi, under Jhabbal police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar. He was married to Shanti and was the father of a daughter Jasbir who is now 21.
In 1987, Jeet found employment on the agricultural farm belonging to the family of Paramjit Singh Panjwar, a well-known militant. The police used to raid Paramjit's house regularly. But Jeet had no connection with the matter and he was not harassed.
One day in the third week of July 1991, the Jhabbal police led by SHO Suba Singh raided Jeet's house in the village and took him into custody in the presence of his wife and daughter. The following day, the police took Jeet to Paramjit Singh's Panjwar's house and thoroughly searched it in his presence. According to Shanti, her husband was killed in an encounter faked at Bhojian village along with another boy of her village belonging to a Sansi Sikh family. A report published in some newspapers the following day described both of them as unidentified militants. The police carried out the cremation without informing Shanti who had no other relative in the village and could not do anything to save her husband.

133 - 134. Under Sl. Nos. 294/465 and 295/466, the list shows two 16 July 1991 cremations carried out by SHO Major Singh of Tarn Taran's Sadar police station under FIR No. 94/91. The postmortem report numbers for both entries is listed as 16.7.91. The cause of death is given as "police encounter".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01431 reflects the following information in this case. The main informant is the victim's mother Charan Kaur.
Sixteen-year old Sarabjit Singh, son of Dalip Singh and Charan Kaur, was a resident of Lalpura village under Sadar police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. Sarabjit's father had passed away while he was still young and he had to give up school to assist his older brother in managing the family farm. Sarabjit had no connections with the militant movement in Punjab. The police had never arrested him, either.
On 11 July 1991, the dark day of the lunar calendar, Sarabjit and his friend Gurdial Singh Mintu, son of Mohinder Singh, resident of the same village, went to the Gurdwara at Tarn Taran to offer prayers but did not return home. The Tarn Taran police had arrested several other young men of the village for routine interrogation and they had seen Sarabjit and Gurdial at Tarn Taran police station. According to them, the police were interrogating them about the whereabouts of Gurdial's cousin Gurbhej Singh, suspected of belonging to the militant underground. However, when members of the village council met the SHO to request him to release the boys, he denied arresting the two.
Sarabjit and Gurdial were declared to be unidentified militants killed in an encounter staged by Tarn Taran police on 15 July 1991. The family was not informed about the cremations. However, the police handed over their ashes to the family members.

135. Under Sl. No. 288/458, the list shows one 14 July 1991 cremation carried out ASI Raj Kumar of Goindwal police station under FIR No. 32/91. The postmortem report number is GSD-28/91. The cause of death is given as "fire arm injuries".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01432 reveals the following information in this case. The main informant in the case is Mohinder Singh, the victim's father.
Thirty-five year old Harbhajan Singh, son of Mohinder Singh and Joginder Kaur, from Lalpura village under Sadar police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district, was a driver of the Akal Takht's head jathedar Professor Darshan Singh Ragi in 1991. He was formally employed by the Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak [management] Committee. Sarabjit was married to Satwant Kaur and was the father of a daughter and a son, Mandeep Kaur and Manjit Singh, who are now 15 and 13. According to Mohinder Singh, Harbhajan had no militant connections.
In July 1991, Professor Darshan Singh was on a tour abroad and Harbhajan was relatively free of work. He used to report to the SGPC's office within the Golden Temple complex to mark his attendance and return home if the office did not give him any work.
On 13 July 1991, around 7 p.m., Harbhajan was on his way to village Vein Puin in an Ambassador car belonging to Heera Singh of Vein Puin village, which he had borrowed from him the previous day. As he turned off the main road to enter the village, some CRPF personnel, who had set up a check-post, fired at his car probably suspecting him to be a terrorist. A bullet hit Harbhajan on his head and he collapsed dead on his steering after managing to break the car. The horn kept blaring for a considerable period of time even as the CRPF men continued firing towards the car.
Harbhajan was carrying his identity card issued by the SGPC as well as his driving license. However, the CRPF declared him to be an unidentified militant and, after a quick postmortem, had him cremated by Goindwal police on 14 July 1991 without informing the family. Several newspapers published a report on 15 July 1991, based on a police handout, about the killing of an unidentified militant near village Vein Puin in the evening of 14 July 1991.
Harbhajan's family members heard about his killing on 15 July 1991 from a member of the SGPC and then went to village Vein Puin and Goindwal police station to confirm it. Next, they went to the cremation ground at Tarn Taran where an attendant showed the pyre on which Harbhajan had been burnt by Goindwal police. Mohinder Singh, Harbhajan's father, recognized in the ashes Harbhajan's steel bangle, which he used to wear on his right hand wrist.

136 - 137. Under Sl. Nos. 422/652 and 423/653, the list shows two 10 April 1992 cremations carried out by SHO Balqar Singh of Tarn Taran's Sadar police station under FIR No. 26/92. The postmortem report numbers are PS-10/92 and PS-11/92. The cause of death is given as "fire arm injuries".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01434 gives the following information in these cases. The main informant is the victim's brother Harjinder Singh.
Balwinder Singh alias Binder, son of late Bagga Singh and late Swaran Kaur, was a resident of village Lalpura, near Raja Ram, under Tarn Taran's Sadar police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. He had an older brother and three sisters. After passing his matriculation, Balwinder worked as a farmer. He did not have a political or militant background and had never been arrested by the police.
On 10 April 1992, Balwinder Singh, a militant Harbhej Singh, son of Joginder Singh, and Harbhej's cousin-brother Mukhtiar Singh, son of Nandir Singh and resident of Kadd Gill, were plowing a piece of land about which Harbhej's family had a dispute with another family. The police surrounded them from all sides and shot them dead. At about 3 p.m., the police carried the bodies away.
On 11 April 1992, newspapers reported that the Tarn Taran police had killed five militants in an encounter between villages Varana and Dhotian. The articles identified two of the dead as Gurbhej Singh Bheja and Ranjodh Singh Jodha. The police had declared Balwinder Singh and Mukhtiar Singh as unidentified even though villagers identified the dead to the police.
The CBI's list of identified cremations accounts for the body of Harbhej Singh under Sl. No. 167/651 and the same FIR No. 26/92. His cremation was also carried out by Balqar Singh of Tarn Taran's Sadar police station. His postmortem report number is 9/92 and the cause of death is given as "police encounter". The bodies of Balwinder and Mukhtiar Singh are represented by these two records in the unidentified CBI list. What happened to the dead bodies of Ranjodh Singh Jodha and the other unidentified militant allegedly killed in the encounter remains a mystery.

138 - 139. Under Sl. Nos. 617/1059, 618/1060, and 619/1061, the list shows three 18 August 1993 cremations carried out by SHO Govinder Singh of Patti police station under FIR No. 57/93. All three postmortem report numbers are given as 18.8.93. The cause of death is "police encounter".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01435 reveals the following information in these cases. The main informant is Dalbir Singh's father Dara Singh.
Dalbir Singh alias Billu, son of Dara Singh and Amar Kaur, was an 18-year old Mazhabi Sikh laborer from Lalpura village, Mazhabian Di Thathi, under Sadar police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. He was the youngest of Dara Singh's three sons and had, in 1991 while still in school, begun to take interest in the militant movement then raging in Punjab. Dara Singh took note of his attitudes and, with the view to keep him from getting involved, forced him to leave school and sent him to his maternal uncle Lakha Singh in Malkana village in Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. There, Dalbir Singh started working as a laborer.
In the month of August or September 1993, a group of police officers from Fatiabad police post under Verowal police station, led by Sub-Inspector Chand Singh, raided Dara Singh's house and took his elder son Swaran Singh into custody for interrogation. The police illegally detained and tortured Swaran Singh at Fatiabad police post for twelve days to pressure him to reveal Dalbir's whereabouts. After learning that Dalbir was living with his maternal uncle at Malkana village in Ganganagar district of Rajasthan, the Fatiabad police arrested his uncle Shingara Singh and his sister-in-law Pasho and together, with all of them, raided Lakha Singh's house in Malkana village.
Dalbir, however, was not present in the house. Lakha Singh told the police officers that Dalbir had moved to a rented flat in Freesar town where his parents, Dara Singh and Amar Kaur, were also staying with him. The Fatiabad police then took Lakha Singh and his brothers along with them to raid Dalbir's rented house in Freesar town, and arrested him from there. The Fatiabad police returned to Tarn Taran along with Dalbir Singh, his brother, sister-in-law and uncle. At Naushehra Pannuan, the police officials asked Dalbir's three relatives to get down from the vehicle and drove away with Dalbir to some unknown destination.
Dara Singh and Amar Kaur came back to their village on their own and met Sub-Inspector Chand Singh of Fatiabad police post to implore him to save their son's life. Chand Singh said that Dalbir had escaped from their custody. It is not clear what happened to Dalbir Singh after the Fatiabad police arrested him from his house in Freesar town in Ganganagar district of Rajasthan and brought him back to Punjab.
According to Dara Singh, the police never came back to his house to ask him about Dalbir, as they had been doing before his arrest. They would have done so if he had, indeed, escaped from their custody as they claimed. We can only wonder if one of these cremations marks the end of Dalbir Singh's life.

140 - 141. Under Sl. Nos. 360/547 and 361/548, the list shows two 8 October 1991 cremations carried out by Major Singh of Tarn Taran's Sadar police station under FIR No. 123/91. The postmortem report numbers are GSD-60/91 and 61/91. The cause of death is given as "police encounter".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form Nos. CCDP/01447 and 01448 reveal the following information in these cases. The main informants are Joginder Singh, Major Singh's uncle, and Sukhwinder Kaur, Gurdeep Singh's mother.
Twenty-year old Major Singh, son of late Gurdial Singh and Channan Kaur, was one of five brothers in a family of Amritdhari Sikhs resident of Sakhira village, Patti Sangat Ki, under Sadar police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. The police suspected them of sympathizing with the militant movement and had arrested Major Singh and his brothers for interrogation on a number of occasions. The police especially targeted Major Singh and his two brothers, Sukhdev Singh and Harbhajan Singh, for harassment. Once, following several days of illegal custody and interrogation under torture, the police implicated Major Singh in a case under TADA. The court, however, released him on bail after some months. Major Singh was unmarried.
On 28 September 1991, Major Singh and his friend Gurdeep Singh, son of late Joginder Singh and Sukhwinder Kaur, had gone to village Valipur to attend a cattle-fair where they bought some pigeons. Gurdeep, who was employed as a truck driver, was 18-years old and was clean-shaven. He was not particularly religious and had never been arrested or interrogated by the police. After attending the cattle-fair at Valipur, Major Singh and Gurdeep were on their way home when, around 1 p.m., SHO Major Singh of Tarn Taran's Sadar police station arrested them near village Valipur over a canal bridge. Their family members learned about the arrests in the evening and met SHO Major Singh the following morning to request him to release the boys. The SHO admitted their custody and told the family that they would be released after their interrogation in some days. A week later, the SHO started denying the arrest of the two boys and also refused to meet their parents.
When some elders of the village talked to the SHO confidentially, he told them that Major Singh and Gurdeep Singh had been killed in an "encounter" with the Tarn Taran police near village Daleke.
The Amritsar police later abducted Sukhdev Singha and Harbhajan Singh, brothers of Major Singh, and also disappeared them. Their parents have since moved their residence to a town in Uttar Pradesh.

142. Under Sl. No. 426/661, the list shows one 20 April 1992 cremation carried out by the SHO of Tarn Taran's City police station under FIR No. 41/92. There is no postmortem report number. The cause of death is given as "encounter".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01450 reveals the following information in this case. The victim's father Joginder Singh is the main informant in this case.
Sixteen-year old Ranga Singh, son of Joginder Kaur and Sant Kaur, was a resident of village Mughal Chack Pannuan, post office Sakhira, under Sadar police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. The youngest of three brothers, Ranga was a student of the Xth class at a local school and also worked as a reader of Sikh scripture at Tarn Taran's historic Gurdwara. His uncle Mohinder Singh, an employee of the SGPC, also worked at the shrine and had helped him obtain the coveted appointment. Ranga, a baptized Sikh, had no militant connections and had never been arrested before this incident.
On 13 April 1992, Ranga had gone to the shrine at Tarn Taran to perform his duty as a reader of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh scripture, and to take part in the celebrations marking the establishment of the Khalsa Sikh order by Guru Govind Singh 293 years ago in 1699. It was an important day in the Sikh religious calendar.
When Ranga completed his part of the recitation around 12 noon, some policemen in plainclothes caught hold of him and took him outside the shrine where SHO Gurbachan Singh Manochahal of Tarn Taran's City police station along with a large number of policemen were waiting. Ranga was pushed into a police vehicle and taken away. His uncle Mohinder Singh, who was on his duty at the shrine, witnessed Ranga's arrest.
Later that evening, Ranga's family members along with several members of the village council, met the SHO who promised to release the boy in some days after his interrogation. The family members also met DSP Dilbagh Singh who also repeated the same promise. Ranga was not released and ten days after his arrest when the family members, along with village elders, again met the DSP, he disclosed that the boy had escaped from police custody. Gurchet Singh Bhullar, a locally influential Congress leader, then talked to the SSP of Tarn Taran and informed the family that the police had already killed Ranga.

143. Under Sl. No. 461/744, the list shows one 4 July 1992 cremation carried out by Subha Singh of Valtoha police station under FIR No. 33/92. The postmortem report number is KS-28/92. The cause of death is given as "fire arm injuries".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form Nos. CCDP/01455 and 01456 reveal the following information in these cases. The main informant is Sukhwant's brother-in-law Nirmal Singh.
Sukhwant Singh, son of Mohan Singh and Darshan Kaur, was a thirty-five year old farmer from Rangana Farm, post office Amb Wali, under Jujhana police station, in Karana subdivision of Muzaffar Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh. He was married to Joginder Kaur and was the father of two sons Jagjit Singh and Bikramjit Singh, who are now 19 and 17.
Sukhwant was a permanent resident of Uttar Pradesh and had no political or militant connections in Punjab. However, his younger brother Kashmir Singh had once been arrested by the Haryana police and had later begun to live with his aunt at village Baghela in Nakodar subdivision of Jalandhar district. Jalandhar police, led by DSP Dharam Singh, arrested Kashmir Singh and his friend Rana, resident of Shankar Saheer village, in the last week of June 1987 when they were boarding a bus at village Rurka. Both of them were first interrogated at the CIA staff office in Jalandhar and then transferred to the headquarters of the 32 Battalion of the CRPF. Rana was later released following an intervention by an influential local politician. Kashmir Singh's family members were unable to find out what happened to him after his transfer to the headquarters of the 32 Battalion of the CRPF. Izhar Alam was the SSP of Jalandhar at that time.
In the last week of June 1992, Sukhwant went to visit his sister Jaswant Kaur at village Jamastpur in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. On 28 June 1992, the Patti and Valtoha police stations, together with the CRPF, launched a combing operation at village Jamastpur. All male residents of the village were assembled in an open space and those who could not establish their local residence, including Sukhwant, were taken into custody for interrogation. The police also arrested Mukhtiar Singh, son of Jarnail Singh, a Mazhabi Sikh, who worked on the agricultural farm belonging to Jaswant Kaur's husband Nirmal Singh, and Mohinder Singh, son of Meja Singh of Jamastpur village.
Over the next days, Nirmal Singh met the SHOs of Valtoha and Patti police stations, but could not obtain any information about his brother-in-law's whereabouts. The police released Mohinder Singh from illegal custody, but nothing could be ascertained about Sukhwant and Mukhtiar Singh. One month after his disappearance, Sukhwant's family members met the DSP of Patti who asked them to give up their efforts to trace him and to carry out his last rites, indirectly indicating that he had been killed.
Several weeks later, it became known that on 3 July 1992 the Valtoha police had killed five persons, including Mukhtiar Singh who was arrested along with Sukhwant, in an encounter staged at village Bahadar Nagar. One of the five killed in the encounter was cremated as an unidentified militant. The family suspects that he was Sukhwant Singh.
The CBI's identified list, under Sl. Nos. 198/740, 199/741, 200/742 and 201/743, records four other cremations carried out by Valtoha police on 4 July 1992 under the same FIR. They are of: [1] Jassa Singh, s/o Sudh Singh, r/o Lakhar Singh, [2] Bekar Singh, s/o Sajjan Singh, r/o Dhoot, [3] Jagtar Singh alias Jaggu, s/o Banta Singh, r/o Verowal and [4] Mukhtiar Singh, s/o of Jarnail Singh, r/o Jamastpur.
According to Nirmal Singh, Sukhwant's father was unable to bear the enforced disappearance of both his sons and died under grief and trauma three years later.

144. Under Sl. No. 232/183, the list shows one 28 February 1991 cremation carried out by the SHO of Jandiala police station under FIR No. 59/91. The postmortem report number is 224 28.2.1991. The cause of death is given as "police encounter".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01469 reveals the following information in this case. The main informant is the victim's father Bhajan Singh.
Thiry-year old Satnam Singh alias Satta, son of Bhajan Singh and Nasib Kaur, was a small farmer resident of village Malmohari, post office Naurangabad, under Sadar police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. He was unmarried. Satnam had begun to sympathize with the political objectives of the Sikh militant struggle after June 1984. The police became suspicious and began to raid his house, arrest him and torture him in illegal custody. Fed up with this pattern of harassment, Satnam left home and joined the underground. The police then began to torment his family members, picking up his parents and his sister and torturing them in illegal custody for information.
On 30 February 1991, Satnam's family members read a report in two Punjabi newspapers, Jagbani and Ajit, claiming that the police had killed Satnam in an encounter near village Rajewal under Jandiala Guru police station.
After reading the reports, Bhajan Singh went to Jandiala Guru police station where the police showed him the clothes Satnam was wearing. Bhajan Singh also talked to the doctor who had carried out the postmortem to confirm that the person slain at Rajewal was indeed his son. He then went to Rajewal village whose residents narrated how the police had brought a young Sikh in their custody to stage the encounter on 27 February 1991.
According to Bhajan Singh, the police had used some renegade militants to nab him before killing him in a faked encounter at Rajewal.

145 - 146. Under Sl. Nos. 554/904 and 555/905, the list shows two 7 November 1992 cremations carried out by SI Sita Ram of Patti police station under FIR No. 67/92. The postmortem report number given for the first entry is KS-96/92. The second postmortem report number is not given. The cause of death is listed as "police encounter".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01470 reveals the following information in these cases. The main informant in this case is Tarlok's elder brother Kulwant Singh.
Tarlok Singh, son of Jarnail Singh and Harbhajan Kaur, was a twenty-four year old automobile mechanic from Chhapa village, post office Baghiari, under Jhabbal police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. He was married, but his widow has since returned to her parents. Tarlok had no connection with the militant movement in Punjab. However, his cousin Tarlochan Singh, son of Mangal Singh, was a member of the Sikh Students Federation. Harassed by the police, Tarlochan had left home to join the underground. Thereafter, the police harassed all of his family members, including Tarlok Singh. Tarlok's father Jarnail Singh was a member of the Communist Party of India.
On 1 November 1992, ASI Dalbir Singh, in charge of the Sabhra police post, arrested Deedar Singh, son of Mangal Singh from Chhapa village. Deedar was Tarlochan Singh's brother. When his family members went to Jhabbal police station to pursue Deedar's case, SHO Sidhu denied having him in his custody.
The same group of police officers from Sabhra police post raided Jarnail Singh's house in the morning of 3 November 1992, around 7 a.m., when Tarlok was already working at Bhikhiwind. The police officer forced Jarnail Singh to come along with him and arrested Tarlok outside of his workshop at Bhikhiwind Chowk while he was reading a newspaper. The police told his father Jarnail Singh to return home.
Jarnail Singh immediately went to Bhikhiwind police station where he found out that his son was under interrogation at Patti police station. He then went to SHO Sita Ram of Patti police station who, however, said that Tarlok was not in his custody. Jarnail Singh then contacted Satpal Singh Dang, a well known Communist Party of India leader from Amritsar, who telephoned SP (Operations) Khubi Ram for his intervention. SP Khubi Ram asked Dang to send Tarlok's immediate family to him.
Tarlok's brother Kulwant Singh, along with members of the village council, met SP Khubi Ram on 6 November 1992. The SP said that he had nothing against Tarlok and that they should return the next day to take him back with them. As advised, Tarlok's family members went back to SP Khubi Ram's office the 7th morning. But he was not available. The same evening, Jarnail Singh found out that the police had staged an encounter near village Sabhra in which Tarlok Singh, Deedar Singh, and Sukhchain Singh, son of Harbhajan Singh, were declared to have been killed. Two Punjabi newspapers, Ajit and Jagbani, published a report about the encounter on 8 November 1992, identifying only Sukhchain Singh and Deedar Singh. The third person, actually Tarlok Singh, was described as an unidentified militant.
The family, who had been hopeful of securing Tarlok's release after receiving the promise from the SP, felt shattered and did not even approach the police officials again. The police carried out the cremations without informing the families.
The cremations of Deedar Singh and Sukhchain Singh, carried out by Sub-Inspector Sita Ram of Patti police station under FIR No. 67/92 on 7 November 1992, are mentioned in the CBI's list of partially identified cremations under Sl. Nos. 101/902 and 102/903. The unidentified list shows two cremations on the same day and under the same FIR No. While one cremation is probably of Tarlok Singh, there is no information on the identity of the other person cremated.
According to Kulwant Singh, two brothers of Deedar Singh, were captured and killed by the police in separate incidents.

147. Under Sl. No. 45/51, the list shows one 12 April 1988 cremation carried out by Gharinda police. There is no FIR number. The postmortem report number is IG/349/88. The cause of death is given as "poison capsule". Under Sl. No. 47/55, the list shows one 4 May 1988 cremation carried out by the Gharinda police. There is no FIR number. The postmortem report is marked as AKC/FM/190/88 and the cause of death is given to be "gun shots".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01514 reveals the following information in the case. The main informant is the victim's wife Jasbir Kaur.
Twenty-six year old Jagdev Singh, son of Bakhshish Singh and Parkash Kaur, was a resident of Bagarian village, post office Tarn Taran, under Tarn Taran's City police station, in Tarn Taran subdivision of Amritsar district. After completing his matriculation, Jagdev worked under a private doctor as a male nurse and then set up his own private practice at village Nona under Jandiala Guru police station in Amritsar. He started earning well and married Jasbir Kaur.
As an Amritdhari Sikh, Jagdev felt deeply hurt by the Indian army's attack on the Golden Temple of Amritsar in June 1984 and expressed sympathy for the militant movement that developed in its wake. The police suspected him of cultivating the ranks of the militant underground and started raiding his house to arrest him. Jagdev dodged the police and started living in hiding.
On 10 April 1988, Jagdev and his wife Jasbir were sitting in the house of Soorta Singh at village Bhakna Khurd under Gharinda police station in Amritsar district. Officers of Gharinda police station surrounded the house and arrested Jagdev. The same group of officers also arrested Rachhpal Singh of Bhakna Khurd. Jasbir Kaur tried unsuccessfully to contact the police officials to rescue her husband from illegal custody.
Two days later, the Gharinda police claimed that an unidentified militant under interrogation committed suicide by consuming cyanide and cremated his body without informing the family.
According to Jasbir Kaur, the police killed Rachhpal Singh, arrested on 10 April 1988 along with her husband, in a faked encounter staged on 03 May 1988. As recorded in the CBI's list, under Sl. No. 47/55, he was also cremated by the Gharinda police as an unidentified militant.

148 - 149. Under Sl. Nos. 599/1020 and 600/1021, the list shows two 28 April 1993 cremations carried out by SHO Govinder Singh of Patti police station under FIR No. 28/93. The postmortem report numbers are not given. The cause of death is listed as "police encounter".
The Committee's Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01555 reveals the following information in these cases. Shinder Singh, the brother of Balwinder Singh, is the main informant.
Twenty-year old Balwinder Singh alias Binder, son of Jeet Singh and Preetam Kaur, was a Mazhabi Sikh resident of Jand village, post office Maneke, under Valtoha police station, in Patti subdivision of Amritsar district. A mason by profession, Balwinder was unmarried. According to his brother Shinder Singh, he had no link with the militant movement and had never been arrested before his execution. Balwinder used to sometimes volunteer for work on the renovation and construction of Gurudwaras under the guidance of Baba Resham Singh, a well known religious figure in his village.
In April 1993, Balwinder had gone with Baba Resham Singh to renovate a famous Gurdwara dedicated to Guru Hargovind at Sri Hargobindpur in district Gurdaspur. A joint force of Tarn Taran police and members of a vigilante group under the leadership of a Nihang religious leader Ajit Singh Phoola and sponsored by the police establishment, abducted Balwinder along with Baba Resham Singh and five of his associates. All of them were held at Kairon police post for a week and brutally tortured under interrogation and then killed in two separate incidents of encounters orchestrated by Harike and Patti police.
The 28 April 1993 cremations of Gulzar Singh, Resham Singh and Sukhdev Singh, killed in these incidents, are recorded in the CBI's list of identified cremations, under Sl. Nos. 308/1015, 309/1018 and 310/1019, and have been described in the relevant chapter of this report. The cremation of Balwinder Singh, and of another unidentified person, carried out without the family's knowledge, is recorded in the CBI's third list under Sl. Nos. 599/1020 and 600/1021.
Balwinder's father Jeet Singh was unable to bear the shock of this incident and died from a heart attack one year later.