Arrest, Torture and Murder
In the month of June 1987, in an under-cover operation, the Punjab Police was able to arrest him after making him unconscious with sedative laced milk. He was ruthlessly tortured to gather information about KCF, He was first beaten, and his bones were broken and twisted. Next, his legs were cut open and hot chillies were thrust in. Mr Singh’s body was then pierced by red hot iron rods. The police went so frustrated with his silence that they cut out one of his eyes at this stage. On Friday July 3, 1987, to extract at least some secret information, Punjab police put him in a tub of boiling water where he was boiled to death and claimed that he was killed in a police encounter.
His mutilated body was handed over to local villagers when they surrounded the police station with their tractors, trolleys and buses and demanded they be given the body to cremate.
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