Excerpted from Ram Narayan Kumar’s video Disappearances in Punjab, the Chief Medical Officer of a hospital in Amritsar district describes how the post mortem process for victims of extrajudicial executions or custodial deaths was reduced to five minutes. He further discusses how the police brought an individual for a post mortem who was alive, took [...]
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Jaswant Singh Khalra: Investigations into Illegal Cremations
October 26, 2008 – 3:11 AM
An SBS Dateline program on Punjab describes human rights defender Jaswant Singh Khalra’s discovery of the Punjab police’s use of secret cremations to hide evidence of extrajudicial executions. The clip includes an interview with human rights activist Ram Narayan Kumar. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from SBS.)
The Disappearance of Kulwinder Singh: Abduction by Police
October 24, 2008 – 2:38 AM
In the first of four clips from an SBS Dateline program on Punjab, Geoff Parish recounts how Kulwinder Singh was abducted by the Punjab police and brought to the family home for a search. The clip includes an interview with human rights activist Ram Narayan Kumar. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded with permission from SBS.)
The Disappearance of Kulwinder Singh: Police Extortion
October 24, 2008 – 2:17 AM
In the second of four clips from an SBS Dateline program on Punjab, Geoff Parish describes the family’s search for justice for the disappearance of Kulwinder Singh. After the family filed a petition in the High Court, the police offered them a bribe to drop the case. The family refused the bribe. (Apr. 2002, Uploaded [...]