I, Devinder Singh, Lecturer in History, Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Chandigarh, do swear and depose that-

  1. On 2.10.1981 at 9.30 p.m., I was abducted from my house No. 326, Sector 35-A, Chandigarh, by the Hoshiarpur District Police. They were armed with stenguns and did not show any warrant etc. for my arrest. I was detained at Police Station Mohali for 1% hours and whisked away ina jeep to Hoshiarpur. After keeping me in Hoshiarpur Police Station, I was handed over to the Railway Police on 3.10.81 at 7.30 p.m. and was taken to Railway Police Station, Jalandhar, where I was told that I was involved in the case of tampering with Railway Track on Hoshiarpur Nasrali section on 27.9.81 whereas I was present in my college on that day and had attended a party given by Prof. Gurtej Singh at his Farm at Nadiali village the same day. The news of my arrest was broadcast on the B.B.C. on 4.10.81. So the embarrassed police registered a false case against me to hoodwink the media.

I concluded from the interrogation that the police officers were dictated by the highest political power in the Government Secretariat. When produced in the court at Hoshiarpur on 5.10.81, the court discharged me by declaring me “not guilty

  1. Again, a case F.I.R. No. 40 dated 27.1.84 at Police Station, Sector 11, Chandigarh, on the basis of a concocted speech, allegedly delivered by me and 16 other prominent Sikhs, at an All India Seminar on present Punjab crisis organised by the Punjab University Sikh Students Federation. On my approaching the Punjab and Haryana High Court, anticipatory bail was granted.
  2. After the operation Blue Star, I remained under police surveillance for over a year. I was asked to account for every absence from my residence.
  3. Whenever, I moved the High Court against different methods of harassment adopted by the Police, the stock reply from the Police was that I was never harassed, and that I was not wanted in any case.

I have never violated any law of the land. I love my land, nature, beauty, children and rural society.

Chandigarh 

October 4, 1987.