AMRITSAR: The Indian police picked up Sarbjit Singh Waltoha from the government hospital at Patti in the presence of doctors, nurses and other witnesses and after a while brought this dead body in the same hospital, had postmortem on his body and are mated it on its own.
These sensational facts were released to the media early this week by none other than the pro police Indian communist leader Satyapal Dang.
Dang explained that Sarbjit Singh along with another person had earlier been brought to the Patti hospital as “dead persons” by the police. They were supposed to be militants who had been “killed” in an encounter with a police party near Toot village. These bodies were brought to the Patti hospital by the police at 6:30 a.m. on Oct.30. The doctor who was per forming postmortem on one of the two bodies discovered that the Sikh youth was still alive. The youth was transferred from mortuary to a male ward for treatment. After a while, the youth was in his senses. He gave his name as Sarbjit Singh Waltoha. He told the doctor that one of the hospital nurses, Baljit Kaur, belonged to his village and that she should be called. The doc tor sent a man to Baljit Kaur’s residence but she was not present there. Instead, on hearing about the patient’s condition, the nurse’s husband, Mahavir Singh, came to the hospital. Mahavir Singh is the secretary of the C, P.I’s area committee. The doctors ought Mahavir Singh’s help in shifting the patient to the government hospital at Amritsar where better medical facilities were available. One per son was sent to Sarbjit Singh’s residence, But in the meanwhile, the Waltona police station $.H.O, along with force came to the hospital and forcibly took away the patient. After two or three hours, according to Dang, the S.H.O, returned along with the dead body of Sarbjit Singh. The police asked the doctor to conduct a post mortem on the body. The police then took away the body and cremated it without giving it to the relations of the Sikh youth.
Dang further revealed that Mahavir Singh sent telegrams to the President of India and chief justice of Punjab and Haryana high court as soon as the police took away the patient and informed the Indian authorities about this rep reprehensible incident. An all-party deputation later met the Sub Divisional Magistrate who could not get in touch with the Tarn Taran police chief. The $.D.M. and the political parties then brought the matter to the notice of the D.I.G., Border Range, Amritsar. The deputationists even complained to the D.LG. that the S.H.0. even could harm the CPI. Secretary too,
Dang said that Sarbjit Singh was not involved in any violent activity although he may have permit ted certain militants to stay at his house.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 5, 1993
