CHANDIGARH: Dr. Jagdish Singh alias Gumam Singh Bhuttar the chief organizer of the Bhindranwale Tiger Force of Khalistan and Convenor of the All India Students Federation was the victim of an extrajudicial killing of the police on April 12.
A reward of Rs 50,000 had been announced for the capture of Bhuttar, who was a well-known Khalistani activist, He had not been charged by the police in any crime.
DS.Gill the Secretary of Punjab Sikh Lawyers Council a civil rights group had written to the chief justice of Punjab and Haryana high court drawing his attention to the arrest of Dr. Jagdish Singh by the Jallandhar police a day before his death was announced by the police.
The police version is that Dr. Jagdish Singh was killed in an “encounter” at the Fattudhing village in Kapurthala district,
Civil rights organizations have documented numerous cases of innocent people and political activists being killed in staged and false “encounters”. This is another case of such.
Khalistan Commando Force Chief Sukhdev Singh Jhemke, was also killed by the police in Chotenangli village under the jurisdiction of Mehta police station in Amritsar.
His death is a major loss to the movement.
Police said that Jhamke was killed in an encounter with a police party.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 21, 1989
