CHANDIGARH: Justice S.S. Sudhalkar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ordered the commandant, Central Reserve Police Force, Chandigarh, to provide security to Mrs. Kulbir Kaur Dhami, wife of Khalistan ideologue Kanwar Singh Dhami, who was convicted by the sessions court. Mrs. Kulbir Kaur Dhami, through her counsel, filed a petition in which she contended before the court that she fears threat to her life as she was under constant pressure from Punjab Police who had warmed her of dire consequences if she deposes against them.
It was contended before the court that Mrs. Dhami along with her husband Kanwar Singh Dhami and their child were kept in illegal detention at Tam Taran, Ropar and other places and during their detention, they were witnesses to many illegal detentions, tortures and extra judicial killings by the police. Mr, Kanwar Singh, who had surrendered to Punjab Police, was produced by former DGP KPS Gill Mr. Dhami accused Mr. Gill by claiming before the media that he was illegally detained for the past one year and his wife and child too were in illegal detenus.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 11, 1996
