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Two of the three policemen responsible for the death of Satnam, a Dalit from Lohian village in Jalandhar, surrendered to the police on March 2. ASI Vijay Kumar, Head Constable Surjit Malik, and Home Guard Balkar Singh are the three responsible for Satnam’s death; Vijay Kumar is still evading arrest. The morning of February 6, […]

On March 2, the court dismissed two applications demanding that KPS Gill be issued summons in the Jaswant Singh Khalra trial. KPS Gill was the Punjab Director-General of Police at the time of Khalra’s disappearance, and has been implicated by the testimony of key witness Kuldeep Singh. The two applications had been filed by Kuldeep […]

From March 2 to 4, defence lawyers examined SPO Kuldeep Singh, the key witness in the Jaswant Singh Khalra case. Earlier in the trial, Kuldeep Singh testified that he had seen Khalra’s torture and the disposal of his body, and implicated KPS Gill, the highest police officer in Punjab at the time. On March 3, […]

On February 26,a court in Patiala sentenced two police officers to three years in prison for causing the 1994 disappearance of Sukhpal Singh Palli, a journalist for Aj Di Awaz. The two sentenced officers are ASI Massa Singh and Havaldar Baljit Singh. Palli was reporting for the Punjabi daily from Moonak at the time. Fifteen days […]

There have been two recent deaths of Dalits under police custody: Satnam from Lohian village in Jalandhar, and Rajinderjit Singh from Phool Khurd village in Ropar. The Lohian police picked up Satnam on January 5 for a theft case and released him later that day. The morning of February 6, the police took him to […]

On February 18, Kuldeep Singh, the key witness in the Jaswant Singh Khalra case, failed to appear in court for cross-examination. When the court summoned him again on February 22, he sent a medical report stating that he was not well and should be excused. The court then summoned him again on February 23 and […]

On February 16, the key witness in the Jaswant Singh Khalra case testified, implicating the highest police officer in Punjab at the time of the murder. Special Police Officer (SPO) Kuldeep Singh, the key witness, said that he saw former Director-General of Punjab Police KPS Gill enter the room Khalra was kept in at Manawala […]

The draconian measures of the new Punjab Police Bill are stirring controversy and criticism from its opponents. Although the Punjab government claims that the bill is a progressive attempt to replace the “retrograde” 1861 Act, critics say that it shifts too many powers to the police. The new police bill erases the distinction between cognizable […]

There have been several recent developments in the Jaswant Singh Khalra case, including the illegal detention of key witness Kulwant Singh. Jaswant Singh Khalra was a human rights activist who was abducted from his home in Amritsar by armed commandos of the Punjab police on September 6, 1995. In January of that year, he and Jaspal Singh […]

On January 31, Amritsar police arrested eleven leaders of the Dal Khalsa outside the Golden Temple on charges of unfurling a “saffron flag” on Republic day, delivering inflammatory speeches, and opening fire in to the air. An FIR was registered. Among those who have been arrested are: Mr H. S. Dhami, working President, Dal Khalsa, Mr Satnam […]

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