{"id":54,"date":"2005-07-01T20:24:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/07\/01\/custodial-death-in-punjab\/"},"modified":"2005-07-01T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:24:25","slug":"custodial-death-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/07\/01\/custodial-death-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Custodial Death in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In late June, Gurinder Singh Bhullar died<\/a>
\nin judicial custody, 43 days after his arrest.  His daughter Rupa
\nstates that he died from torture and police failure to provide him with
\nhis medications, despite his suffering from diabetes and high blood
\npressure:<\/p>\n

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Though
\nhe was suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes, he was
\nallegedly tortured and shuttled between Chandigarh and Nawanshahr as
\nthe Punjab police and the NCB [Narcotics Control Bureau] were in
\nconflict with each other over his custody. If at all there were any
\ncharges against him, the job of the authorities was to prove it in a
\ncourt rather than make him die a slow death by medical neglect, mental
\ntorture and humiliation”, she says. <\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/font>
\nShe alleges that right from his first court appearance they tried to deny her father legal representation….<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/font>
\nOn
\nMay 30, when he was produced again in the Balachaur court, the
\nmagistrate looked at his condition, realised its seriousness and
\nordered him to be hospitalised. His feet were swollen, he could barely
\nwalk. His toes were bleeding with no sign of any first aid.<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/font>
\n“He
\nwas not sent to the hospital immediately. Instead he was taken to
\nLudhiana jail, sent to the Ludhiana Civil Hospital the next day from
\nwhere he was referred to the PGI. All this time his condition
\ndeteriorated, but the family was not informed about it. He was admitted
\nto the PGI where he died a few hours later .The cause of his death
\nconveyed to us was heart attack. After two days and several hours of
\npaperwork, his swollen and bruised body was handed over to us.”<\/span><\/font>
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In late June, Gurinder Singh Bhullar died in judicial custody, 43 days after his arrest.  His daughter Rupa states that he died from torture and police failure to provide him with his medications, despite his suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure: Though he was suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes, he was allegedly […]<\/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-54","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\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}