Under Sl. Nos. 140/562, 141/563 and 142/564, the list identifies three cremations on 24 October 1991, carried out by the SHO of Sirhali police station under FIR No. 113/91. They are of: [1] Mangal Singh alias Manga, s/o Jagga Singh, r/o Fatehgarh Churian, [2] Charan Singh alias Chana, s/o Kartar Singh, r/o Patti and [3] Jaswinder Singh, s/o Charan Singh, r/o Johal Raju Singh. The postmortem reports are said to be “not available”. The cause of death is given as “police encounter”.

The Committee has the following information in the case of Jaswinder Singh through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01516. The main informant is Gurcharan Singh, the real name of the victim’s father which has been abbreviated into Charan Singh in the CBI’s list.

Twenty-year old Jaswinder Singh, son of Gurcharan Singh and Narinder Kaur, was a milk-vendor, resident of village Jauhal Raju Singh, Vaare Wale, under Tarn Taran’s city police station. He was married to Amarjit Kaur and had a son Jarnail Singh.

Jaswinder was a baptized Sikh and used to attend religious and political functions organized by various Sikh groups in his area. The police started raiding his house from the middle of 1989. Jaswinder feared torture and went underground. The police then started tormenting his family members, especially targeting the women, including his wife, for custodial torture. The police wanted them to produce Jaswinder for interrogation. But they were unable to do so because they had no knowledge of his whereabouts.

On 26 October 1991, several Punjabi newspapers published a story about an encounter near village Dargapur Thathian in which Jaswinder Singh Jajj, along with two of his associates, was reported killed. The family, however, did not receive an official confirmation and the police continued to raid their house and illegally detain the family members for interrogation and torture.

Again on 18 November 1992, the newspapers in Punjab reported the killing of Jaswinder Sing Jajj in an encounter with the police near village Khunde Halal in Muktsar subdivision of Faridkot district. The newspaper reports mentioned that three other associates of Jaswinder were also killed in the same encounter. Their names listed were Nishan Singh Khaparkheri, Satta of Varpal village and another person from Gharka Chamba village under Chola Sahib police station.

The family members do not know which one of the reports to believe. They neither saw the dead body nor attended the cremation.')"

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