Under Sl. No. 124/409, the list identifies the 09 May 1991 cremation of Kala Singh, s/o Jagir Singh, r/o Mogal Chak, carried out by the SHO of Tarn Taran’s city police station under FIR No. 66/91. The postmortem report is mentioned as KK 99/91. The cause of death is mentioned as “police encounter”.

The Committee has the following information through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01442. The main informant is Mohinder Kaur, the victim’s mother.

Kala Singh alias Amrik was a resident of village Valipur, post office Palasaur under Tarn Taran’s City police station. The youngest among four brothers in a family with only three acres of agricultural land, Kala Singh made his living as a ceremonial reader, or Paathi, of the Sikh scriptures. One of his elder brothers was then in the Indian army. Kala Singh was 25, unmarried and was acquainted with many who belonged to underground militant groups.

On 09 May 1991, Kala Singh was in a house at village Rataul along with five others connected with the armed underground organizations when the paramilitary forces and the police carried out a joint operation resulting in their deaths. The exchange of fire was real and lasted several hours. One police officer was also killed in the course of this operation.

The police cremated all six bodies without informing their family members. Apart from Kala Singh, they were:

[1] Harjinder Singh Pehalwan, resident of Lopoke,
[2] Mehar Singh Fauji, resident of Lopoke,
[3] Jagtar Singh of Bhorsi Rajputan, under police station Jandiala Guru,
[4] Lakhwinder Singh, resident of Takhu Chack, in Tarn Taran subdivision, and
[5] Lakhwinder Singh, resident of Mughal Chack in Tarn Taran.')"

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