Family Sufferings and Afterwards
When Mr. Babbar was alive, Indian security forces were accused of using inhumane methods to gather information about Sukhdev Singh Babbar. As per Amnesty International, they illegally detained-without-charge, beat, and harassed his family members to gain information about Babbar Khalsa Leaders. His sister-in-law was once beaten so violently that the ligaments of her left arm and shoulder got torn, then her hands were tied behind and she was made to lie on the floor on her stomach. She was lashed with a whip and then interrogated. Policemen then placed roller planks on her legs and three men got up and rolled the planks up and down until she fainted with pain.
Immediately after his death in 1992, Punjab Police illegally occupied Mr. Babbar's house where he had died. An Inspector General ranked officer of Punjab Police occupied Mr. Babbar’s house, in the city of Patiala-(House Number 20, Phase I, Urban Estate, Patiala) and it was not handed over to his family even on the orders of Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1997. Supreme Court of India also rejected the SLP filed against Punjab and Haryana High Court orders in August 1998 but his house was still not handed back to his family. In 1999, a “contempt of court proceedings” case against Government of Punjab and Punjab Police officials was being heard in the court of Justice V.S. Aggarwal, Punjab and Haryana High Court. Finally his family members left their home and hearth for an ‘unknown place’, reportedly in a foreign country, a major portion of the ancestral house of the Babbar Khalsa chief now stands demolished and the remaining dilapidated two-room set is locked.
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