Under Sl. Nos. 153/603 and 154/604, the list identifies two cremations on 28 December 1991, carried out by SHO Ram Nath of Patti police station under FIR No. 171/91. They are of: [1] Mukhtiar Singh alias Mukha, s/o Hari Singh, r/o Fatehgarh Sabrah, and [2] Buta Singh, s/o Harnam Singh, r/o Bandhala. 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 Mukhtiar Singh through its Incident-Report Form No. CCDP/01592. The main informant is the victim’s father Hari Singh.

Thirty-year old Mukhtiar Singh, s/o Hari Singh and Kesar Kaur, was a farmer resident of village Aale Wala, under Mallan Wala police station, in Zira subdivision of Ferozepur district. He was unmarried and used to work with his four brothers on their common agricultural land.

In early 1991, Mukhtiar Singh left his house for some months to become a truck driver and, in this period, associated with people linked to the Sikh armed underground. After some months, he returned to his village and resumed his normal life.

In the morning of 27 December 1991, around 10 a.m., Mukhtiar Singh and one of his friends Boota Singh, s/o Harnam Singh from Bundala village under Mallan Wala police station in Zira subdivision of Ferozepur district, were sitting in a farm house just outside their village when the Patti police, led by SHO Ram Nath, surrounded the house and killed them in a forced encounter. It was a foggy day with very poor visibility and the people, who were not allowed to go near the house for many hours, could not figure out how the police had actually killed them. Mukhtiar’s family members came to know about the killings the same day, but dared not go to the site of the incident because of the police presence.

The police allowed them to attend Mukhtiar’s cremation.

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