CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Director General of Police, K.P.S. Gill, has said that he has directed the border range police to conduct detailed inquiry and submit a report as soon as possible on the specific cases reported by a human rights group regarding the cremation of unidentified bodies. Mr. Gill said Feb.5th, that had the police harbored any mala fide intentions, there was no need to bring the bodies to the cremation grounds
He said militants who were earlier unidentified when killed in encounters, were subsequently identified. He said many of the unidentified bodies were of the victims of militant violence. He said it was difficult to ascertain the identity of migrant labor, who were gunned down by the militants in brick kilns and farm houses. Their cremations were conducted by the police, he added.
Dismissing reports as baseless, regarding the excesses by the police, Gill said that had there been such incidents in such large numbers, it would have been impossible for the policemen to move freely without weapons as they are doing now. He admitted that there were some aberrations and attempts were being made to check them
Article extracted from this publication >> February 10, 1995
