The police had been harassing the Granthi of Lalowal, Kashmir Singh, who had been the victim of police atrocities often. Once he was publicly stripped and beaten at PS Khamano. When Kashmir Singh ran away from home to avoid this harassment, the police picked up his sisters, Gurdish Kaur and Devinder Kauralong with their husbands and brought them to the police station. The sisters were tortured so badly that Devinder Kaur, who was pregnant, miscarried. Police shot dead Kashmir Singh on Aug 11, 1989. He had been in their custody for a few days.

Article extracted from this publication >> April 6, 1990