{"id":420,"date":"2006-07-10T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2006\/07\/10\/three-cops-suspended-for-beating-up-"},"modified":"2006-07-10T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T23:22:31","slug":"three-cops-suspended-for-beating-up-pregnant-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2006\/07\/10\/three-cops-suspended-for-beating-up-pregnant-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cops suspended for beating up pregnant woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a669'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><SPAN style=\"FONT-FAMILY: arial\"><FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Over the July 4th weekend in the Amritsar district of Punjab, the Dhariwal police arrested one constable and suspended three others on allegations of abuse inflicted upon a pregnant woman, Simranjit Kaur, and her father-in-law, Tarsem Singh. These individuals were identified as constable Sukhpal Singh, head constable Chanchal Singh, constable Gurdev Singh, and driver Raghubir Singh. <BR><BR>The <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/cities.expressindia.com\/fullstory.php?newsid=191342%20\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">beating<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> resulted in a stillbirth for seven-month pregnant, 21-year-old Simranjit Kaur, who is now recovering in the Gurdaspur Civil Hospital. The four policeman allegedly entered Kaur&#8217;s home with &#8220;a score to settle&#8221; against her husband, Kamaljit Singh Ladda. Kaur was assaulted while attempting to save her father-in-law Tarsem Singh from attack.<BR><BR>While seemingly <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/02\/10#a365\"><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">condemning<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> this act, DGP S. S. Virk himself has been accused of committing serious human rights violations, such as torture and extrajudicial executions, in Punjab during the police counter-insurgency operations of 1984-1995. Virk remains in office on request of the Punjabi Government. <BR><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the July 4th weekend in the Amritsar district of Punjab, the Dhariwal police arrested one constable and suspended three others on allegations of abuse inflicted upon a pregnant woman, Simranjit Kaur, and her father-in-law, Tarsem Singh. These individuals were identified as constable Sukhpal Singh, head constable Chanchal Singh, constable Gurdev Singh, and driver Raghubir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","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\/420","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\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}