LUDHIANA: The Punjab Human Rights Organization recently said that there was no let-up in police oppression on the people even as the election process is on to install a popular government in the state.
This was stated here by the PHRO Chairman Mr D.S.Gill who released to the press a report to this effect and added that Khalistan Commando Force (Zaffarwal) activist Bhai Baghel Singh Abbuwal’s family and relatives had been the victim of the recent police repression.
According to Mr Gill Ludhiana police raided Bhai Abbuwal’s house at mid-night of May 2 and Picked up his 85-yr-old crippled grandfather Nambardar Rampartap Singh uncles Mohinder Singh and Ujagar Singh and his cousin Bant Kaur (22). Before leaving the house he said the police posse demolished all fans. Not even a glass to drink water was spared Cattle were untethered. Villagers were threatened not to touch bundles of harvested wheat crop and cultivate the family’s lands.
The matter was investigated by a two member team of the Organization comprising its general secretary Mr.Mohinder Singh Grewal and Mr M.I.S. Dhillon who visited Abbuwal village and met several persons.
Meanwhile Bhai Baghel Singh’s other relatives were rounded up by the police from about half-a dozen villages His father Karnail Singh mother and all three brothers had already left the house to go elsewhere due to frequent police raids searches and harassment
It seems a retaliatory action by the police as they suspect the KCF (Zaffarwal)’s hand in the kidnapping of late DIG Ajit Singh’s brother from Ludhiana a few days ago the report added.
The PHRO in its report condemned the retaliatory attitude of the police against the innocent relatives of the underground youth and demanded their immediate release action against the guilty officials and damages for the destruction of the property and crops amounting to Rs.150,000.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 14, 1991
