GURDASPUR: An underground hit squad of the Punjab police called Cats has once again shown how anarchy prevails and Sikhs are being dubbed terrorists.
The squad killed a teenaged boy and made an unsuccessful kid to rob a few houses on September 17 before being nabbed by the BSF.
Five men travelling in a white Maruti van PCP 1381 came to the village of Kler Khurd at 11 pm. They robbed the house of Kulwant Singh who was busy in his fields. The Cats harassed his sister Sukhbinder Kaur who was alone. They took away 30 grams of gold among other things. They then jumped into the house of Mohinder Singh a decorated soldier of the 1962 war with China. They woke up Gurdev Kaur, the wife and asked her to call all the males out.
Mohinder Singh was asked to give them money to buy an AK 47 rifle. On pleading that he had no money in the house, the men said they were bound to be expensive things around as a wedding was going to be held there soon. One Cat forced his way into the house and ransacked the place while two stood guard.
Suddenly, there was a commotion and the guards jumped over the wall and fled. It was just the 2 other Cats coming in but the man inside panicked and opened fire killing Mohinder’s teenaged son and one of his colleagues.
The dead Cats identity was established by his drivers license and other papers found on his body. The four men fled but the van’s keys were on the dead man, so they hid in a nearby sugarcane field.
The villagers raised an alarm which brought in BSF men deployed 3 miles away. They have “srrested” the four men.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 22, 1989
