PATIALA: Bir Devinder Singh, former Chief Whip of the Congress in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and a dissident Congress leader, addressing a Press conference here Aug.2, said that he had submitted a detailed complaint to the National Human Rights Commission and to the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) about the inhuman treatment meted out to him in police custody and in jail after a criminal case was registered against him recently. The Congress leader said that in his complaint he had said that the cases were registered against him at the instance of the state government as he had once spearheaded a campaign to dislodge Beant Singh from the president ship of the Punjab Congress Committee.
He alleged that while in police custody he was given all kinds of mental and physical torture. His close relatives, his son, and his friends, were not allowed to meet him. He said that friends who came to meet him in jail were detained by the police. In jail, threats were given to him that he would be booked under TADA and the NSA if he gave a statement to the Press after coming out of jail.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 5, 1994
