b) Putting ground chillies in the eyes, anus and genitals of the person.
c) Hanging the person upside down from the roof till he faints.
d) Beating his limbs and joints with sticks.
e) Giving the person electric shocks to include private parts of the body.
f) If a woman is being interrogated then she is abused in filthy language and is sexually humiliated and raped.
g) The legs are stretched apart till the pelvic muscles tear.
h) Keeping the tortured and tormented person hungry and thirsty is a common practice.
i) During the cold months, persons are stripped naked and during the hot months they are put in the burning hot sun.
J) Not allowing a person to sleep for days at a stretch.
k) Keeping persons in solitary confinement cells. 5. Human rights organization such as Amnesty International is barred from entering the state of Punjab. There is no such thing as Free Press in Punjab. All the news agencies and newspapers are subjected to rigid censorship by the Central government. 6. In its 1991 report Amnesty International pointed out that several thousand political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, were held without any formal charges or trial under special or preventive detaining laws. Politically motivated arrests are not acknowledged officially. Torture and ill treatment are wide spread. Some states have adopted a systematic, process of elimination of humans that has resulted in scores of deaths while the person is still in the police custody. Hundreds of persons in police custody have been extra judicially executed in “fake encounters” staged by police. Well over 100 peaceful demonstrators are believed to have been victims of extrajudicial executions. A very small number of persons are tried in Courts and executed, and sentenced to death. 7. According to Punjab Human Rights Organization report “The rape of Sikh Women” even minor Sikh girls are gang raped by paramilitary forces. An Indian Army Brigadier on March 8, 1991 while at village Sarangra made derogatory remarks about the Sikh women to the Panches and Sarpanchs
