CHANDIGARH: Misery seems to have come in series for the four women whose foreheads were tattooed with the word jebkatri allegedly by the Amritsar police in December last.
The women Parmeshwari Mohinder Kaur Gurdev Kaur and Surjit Kaur from Sangrur and Patiala districts are dissatisfied with the operation performed by the doctors at the Rajindra Hospital Patiala on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court given on January 31 The women who wore presented before media persons by their advocates G.S. Grewal and Pavitar Singh Grewal here last week showed the marks of plastic surgery which had further disfigured their foreheads. The doctors had earlier assured that the tattoo marks would disappear a month after the operation. But now the women had been advised for prepare themselves for another operation after six months
The women lamented that they would have to keep their fore heads covered even after the operation. It was terrifying to see Apply scars of surgery on the foreheads after the wounds of the operation healed they said
The counsel for the women G.S Grewal said it does not seem to be a plastic surgery at all Parts of the skin seem to have been removed and Later stitched together there were no signs of grafting and the agony has been aggravated.
During the operation early this month plain clothes policemen Kept a watch on the women and their acquaintances. A teenaged son of Gurdev Kaur was picked up by the police from his native village Channa in Patiala district last week and kept in illegal custody. He was beaten without any apparent reason
These women had been arrested by the Amritsar police on the charge of stealing purse of foreign tourist and were kept in illegal custody Superintendent of police Sukhdev Singh China who allegedly had an enmity with the women pertaining to an incident when he was posted in Sangrur was said to have passed the orders for tattooing the fore. Heads of the women
Article extracted from this publication >> March 4, 1994
