Encounters Rising, Ghost Of 30-Year-Old Disappearance Haunts Punjab Police
NDTV
A report into the alleged forced disappearance and murder of an acting Akal Takht jathedar in 1993 has been handed over to the current head of the body.
At a time when Punjab has seen 11 encounters in two weeks, the ghost of an alleged forced disappearance and murder of an acting Akal Takht jathedar has come back to haunt the state police over 30 years later.
Acting Akal Takht jathedar Gurdev Singh Kaunke had been taken in custody in December 1992, at the height of militancy in the state, and the police had said he had escaped from their custody a few days later. Villagers had, however, alleged that Kaunke had disappeared and was killed by the police in an encounter.
An inquiry into the incident from 1998 has now surfaced which questions the police's claims and recommends a case against a policeman as well as further investigation into the incident.