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The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (formerly Asia Watch) sent a delegation to Punjab for two months in 1990, and during that limited time "documented 29 extrajudicial executions in which the security forces falsely claimed that the victims were killed in ‘encounters’", along with 12 disappearances and 32 cases of torture by security ...
Human rights organisations and newspapers across India believed that the massacre was organised. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] [ 58 ] The collusion of political officials in the violence and judicial failure to penalise the perpetrators alienated Sikhs and increased support for the Khalistan movement.
Jamalpur Fake Encounter case is ongoing Criminal case in Jamalpur Area, Ludhiana, Punjab state of India took place on and involved fake encounter killing of two Dalit brothers: Harinder Singh(23) and Jatinder Singh(25). [1] Punjab Police suspended three police officers
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Indian police officer Kanwar Pal Singh Gill Gill in 2005 Born (1934-12-29) 29 December 1934 Ludhiana, Punjab, British India Died 26 May 2017 (2017-05-26) (aged 82) New Delhi, India Alma mater Panjab University (English) Police career Country India Allegiance Indian Police Service Service ...
The report focuses on human rights violations committed by the Punjab Police during its operations to suppress the Punjab insurgency in India, from 1984 to 1994. The author Ram Narayan Kumar claims that the issue of Khalistan was used by the State to divert attention from real issues of democracy, constitutional safeguard and citizens' rights. [1]
The commission and its report was criticised as biased by the People's Union for Civil Liberties and Human Rights Watch. According to a Human Rights Watch report on the commission: It recommended no criminal prosecution of any individual, and it cleared all high-level officials of directing the pogroms.
Six Hindu passengers were shot dead by two pro-Khalistan Sikh militants, [5] [6] who hijacked a bus going from Dhilwan to Jalandhar in Punjab, and opened fire on Hindu passengers. [7] [8] This bus massacre triggered the President's rule in Punjab as by this time, more than 175 people had been killed in militancy-related violence. [9] 18 Nov 1983
The two Christian men cited in the original social media posts were arrested by the Punjab Police of Pakistan for alleged Quran desecration, a violation of the country's blasphemy law. [ 4 ] Rizwan Khan, the regional police chief, said that 129 people in connection with the mob violence had been arrested. [ 4 ]