Balbir Kaur
Police arrested Balbir Kaur of village Wadian, about 30 kilometers from Guruharsahai on 12 December 1987. They had arrested her husband Mahil Singh three days earlier. They were looking for her two younger brothers. Even though by this time they had submitted themselves to the police through a local Member of the Legislative Assembly and members of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee, Balbir Kaur was arrested.
Balbir Kaur was kept in police custody for eight days during which she was subjected to severe police torture. At last the police brought her in a jeep in a wounded state on 20 December and threw her at her home. She was treated regularly for three months but her body had been battered badly by the police beating. She seemed a half dead corpse to all those who looked at her. She couldn’t leave her bed for a day and breathed her last on March 20, 1988. The eight days she spent in police custody became the cause of her death. Her 5 year old daughter is living with her grandmother. The police murdered her 16 year old brother on the night of December 15 in a fake encounter.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 6, 1990
