{"id":328,"date":"2004-06-10T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T03:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/06\/10\/custodial-crimes-continue-in-punjab\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T23:16:52","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T03:16:52","slug":"custodial-crimes-continue-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/06\/10\/custodial-crimes-continue-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Custodial Crimes Continue in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a235'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Although the police has ended its counterinsurgency operations, reports of torture and custodial deaths regular surface in Punjab.&nbsp; Most recently, the <A href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/uncomp\/articleshow?msid=725156\">torture<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> of a famous kabaddi player drew attention:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>22-year-old Jasvir was allegedly picked up by the Kotkapura police at the instance of his wife&#8217;s maternal uncle, Suba Singh, who is part of the security detail with former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The victim was allegedly brutally tortured for two days at the city police station here. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The victim was medically examined at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, on the directions of additional chief judicial magistrate Faridkot. <\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>The court has also summoned the Kotkapura SHO to explain the matter. The victim has written to Punjab Human Rights Commission, DGP Punjab and other higher authorities for registration of a case against SHO Nachhatar Singh, ASI Iqbal Singh and his wife&#8217;s uncle Suba Singh.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Today, the Station House Officer (SHO) and three others in Tarn Taran were also booked for the custodial <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/2004\/20040611\/main4.htm\">death<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> of Jaspal Singh, a farmer whose family claims he was tortured to death.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the police has ended its counterinsurgency operations, reports of torture and custodial deaths regular surface in Punjab.&nbsp; Most recently, the torture of a famous kabaddi player drew attention: 22-year-old Jasvir was allegedly picked up by the Kotkapura police at the instance of his wife&#8217;s maternal uncle, Suba Singh, who is part of the security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punjab"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}