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Narain Singh Chaura, accused of involvement in the 2004 Burail jailbreak, was released on bail last week. Confirming his lawyers statements a year ago, Narain Singh reported that police tortured him with electrical shocks about 200 times while he was in their custody. In January 2004, the police accused Narain Singh Chaura of organizing the […]

Although Sub-Inspector Satnam Singh was arrested on April 21 for the custodial death of Balbir Singh, a Dalit man, the two other accused, Station House Officer Jasbir Singh and Punjab Trading Company owner Mindhi Shah, are still at large. The police say that they have not been able to trace them. Sub-Inspector Satnam Singh appeared […]

Mohan Lal, accused in the Lalla murder case, said that Jalandhar jail officers used a hot iron rod to brand “neevi jaat” (low caste) on his back on April 24. Mohan Lal said that he was not allowed to go to the temple because of his caste, and that he was beaten and branded by his jailers. […]

A woman was brought to the Civil Hospital in Bathinda in critical condition on April 25, after she reported being raped in police custody. She was examined by a Health Department team following a court order, but no details of her examination were available. The woman, Pawani, said that the police had fabricated a case […]

Balbir Singh, a thirty-seven year old Dalit man, died in police custody in Kapurthala on April 21. He was arrested at 1 a.m. that morning on charges of stealing 300 bags of wheat on a tractor-trailer from his employer, Mindhi Shah. He was taken to the Civil Hospital for a medical examination, found fit at 1:35 a.m., […]

Fourteen years after the Chandigarh bomb blast, and ten years after being imprisoned, Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar will finally have charges framed against him. Bhullar, along with Pratap Singh and Gursharan Kaur, is an accused in the 1991 explosion aimed at Chandigarh SSP Sumedh Singh Saini. The Punjab police disappeared Bhullar’s father in 1991 and […]

On March 28, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the Punjab government to submit its records regarding SS Virk’s charge sheet.SS Virk was appointed Punjab’s Director-General of Police in February 2005 amid controversy over his role in cases of torture and extrajudicial executions. In addition, the Union Government issued a charge sheet against him […]

The High Court has upheld the life sentences of of Punjab Police DSP Baldev Singh and Head Constable Balwinder Singh. They had filed an appeal to the sentences, which were for the disappearances of seven male members of a Majitha family in 1991. In 1991, Baldev Singh, Balwinder Singh, and a group of others went […]

A man accused of killing his wife has said that while under police custody, he was subjected to “third degree torture” and “inhuman treatment.” Saudagar Singh is on trial for the murder of his wife, Harpreet Kaur, with the help of his servant, Deepak Kumar Bahadur. The prosecution claimed that he had confessed to hitting […]

On March 24, Brijinder Singh Sodhi, the prosecution lawyer in the Jaswant Singh Khalra trial, said that one of the accused police officers threatened him. Mr Sodhi claimed that the incident occurred when he was going to enter the court at around 11.30 a.m. He said a police officer, Surinderpal Singh, who was the Station […]

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