Under Sl. No. 125/418, the list identifies the 25 May 1991 cremation of Joginder Singh, alias Jinda, s/o Chanchal Singh, r/o Muradpura, carried out by Inspector Jagdish Singh of Tarn Taran’s city police station under FIR No. 74/91. The postmortem report is mentioned as AK 61/91. The cause of death is mentioned as “encounter”.

The Committee has the following information through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01423. The main informant is the victim’s brother Dalbir Singh.

Joginder Singh, from Muradpur, Bhatha Colony [Jand Pir] in Tarn Taran city, was 18 and the youngest in a very poor family of Mazhabi Sikhs. He was unmarried and earned his livelihood as a laborer. He was clean-shaven and was not religiously inclined. He had no political or militant associations and had never been involved in any criminal case.

On 24 May 1991, Joginder Singh was abducted from his house by three to four unidentified armed men in civil clothes. His parents, who have since died, did not know if the abductors were policemen in plain clothes or militants. The next day, some officers from Tarn Taran City police station came to the house and asked Joginder’s elder brother Hardev Singh and other family members to come to village Mallian where Joginder Singh’s dead body was lying. The officers did not explain what had happened to Joginder Singh and how he died. Victims of militant violence in Punjab received compensation, which Joginder Singh’s family did not receive. The CBI’s list mentions the cause of death as “encounter”.')"

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