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Under Sl. No. 139/538, the list identifies the 03 October 1991 cremation of Bunta Singh, s/o Sucha Singh Jat, r/o Kalsian carried out by SHO Surinder Singh of Valtoha police station under FIR No. 63/91. The postmortem report is marked as SLG 99/91 and the cause of death is given as “police encounter”.
The Committee has the following information in this case through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01565. The main informant is the victim’s brother Gurnam Singh Kavishar.
Forty-year old Banta Singh, son of Sucha Singh and Niranjan Kaur, was a farmer resident of Kalsian Kalan village, Patti Jethu Ki, under Bhikhiwind police station, in Patti subdivision of Amitsar district. The eldest of three brothers, Banta Singh was unmarried.
A baptized Sikh, Banta Singh had been arrested and interrogated under severe torture regularly on the basis of the police suspicion that he maintained links with the militant underground. According to his brother Gurnam, Banta Singh could not endure these excesses and, in 1989, left home to join the militant underground.
Banta Singh was killed in a supposed encounter with the police that was reported in newspapers on 03 October 1991. Gurnam Singh and other family members were unable to ascertain whether the report of the encounter was genuine or faked. ')"
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