Under Sl. Nos. 122/399 and 123/400, the list identifies two cremations carried out by ASI B. Singh of Tarn Taran’s Sadar police station on 02 May 1991 under FIR No. 44/91. They are of [1] Balwinder Singh alias Fauji, s/o Jarnail Singh, r/o Dayal Rajpur, and [2] Samer Singh, s/o Kundan Singh Mazhabi, r/o Thathian. The postmortem reports are marked as GSD?3/91 and GSD?4/91. The cause of death is given to be “firearm injuries”.

The Committee has the following information in the case of Balwinder Singh through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01552. The main informant is Gurbachan Kaur, the victim’s mother.

Balwinder Singh, son of Jarnail Singh and Gurbachan Kaur, was a bank employee from village Dial Rajput, post office Sehbazpur, under Patti police station. After completing his matriculation, Balwinder got a job at Amrisar’s branch of the UCO bank. He was still unmarried when Balwinder had a quarrel with a resident of his village that became vicious, resulting in the murder of his adversary. Balwinder was arrested and convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1989, Balwinder, released for some months on parole, decided not to return to jail and went underground. The police started raiding his house and arresting his family members to obtain information about Balwinder’s whereabouts.

While Gurbachan Kaur was narrating the background of her son’s arrest in 1991, her elder daughter and son came out of the house and asked the Committee members to explain the purpose of their inquiries. After hearing about the Supreme Court’s order and the proceedings before the NHRC, Gurbachan Kaur’s surviving children refused to provide any information. Becoming very emotional, they pointed out that the family had already suffered enough police atrocities and did not want to face further troubles by making any complaint. They pointed out that Balwinder was arrested and killed in a faked encounter. But they did not want to make any complaint or seek justice because, as they pointed out, justice is impossible and the police had a long reach and would not spare them for making complaints. ')"

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