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Petitions filed regarding false tagging of bodies
March 17, 2006 | Comments Off on Petitions filed regarding false tagging of bodies
Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi has filed a petition with the High Court to prevent the Punjab government and police from disclosing information about him and others who were falsely declared dead by the police. Director-general of Punjab police SS Virk had recently revealed that during the counter-insurgency, Sukhi and other militants who helped the police were covertly falsely declared dead by the police. This revelation drew intense criticism, as the police tagged their names on unidentified bodies in order to declare them dead. This raised the question of who the unidentified bodies were and how they were killed.
In a bid to clear the mystery concerning the dead body that was shown in pictures to facilitate his being declared dead, Sukhi has claimed that the entire affair was a stage-managed drama.
He has claimed that he was asked to act dead and his photographs were clicked so that terrorist groups did not seek his release.
The World Human Rights Protection Council (WHRPC) has also filed a petition seeking to initiate action against the police officers who falsely declared living persons dead, to end that practice, and to make public the names of those falsely declared dead.
The hearing of the petitions is scheduled for April 6.
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