CHANDIGARH: AAP HAS severely condemns the intriguing quiet burial of seven custodial fake encounter killings by Pilibhit jail staff in 1994 and demanded re-inquiry by none less than CBI.
Sukhpal Singh Khaira, spokesman of AAP Punjab today in a statement termed it a glaring example of the rarest of rare crime against humanity in modern times.
Khaira said that in what can be termed as rarest of rare violations of human rights and that too, by a government department meant to reform people, the Pilibhit jail authorities in the year 1994 mercilessly killed 7 Sikh detainees and subsequently managed to escape punishment.
As we are aware, a national media house has released a detailed fact file of gruesome and brutal fake encounter killing of 7 Sikh TADA detainees, besides inhuman torture of 21 other inmates by the authorities of Pilibhit District Jail in 1994.
As per the shocking revelations 28 TADA Sikh detainees lodged in barrack 7 of Pilibhit jail then, were taken to another barrack on the night of 8-9 November 1994. Where all the 28 detainees after being tied up were brutally beaten up by jail staff led by the then Superintendent Vindhyachal Singh Yadav, while six of the said detainees were brought dead to the District Hospital Pilibhit over a period of 12 hours, one Vichitra Singh succumbed to serious injuries in King George Medical College Lucknow. The remaining 21 detainees sustained grievous and serious injuries and were admitted to the hospital.
Thereafter, the District Magistrate Pilibhit ordered a CB-CID inquiry on 21st November 1994. On 24th January 1995 Suptd. Jail Yadav and 41 other jail staff were chargesheeted for murdering the said 7 TADA prisoners while in their custody.
Unfortunately the trial after moving on a snail’s pace was shut down in 2007, after the Mulayam Singh Yadav government permitted withdrawal of the case on 15th January 2007. As a result all 42 accused jail staff were allowed to scott free, after committing one of the most heinous crime in modern times.
The fact file of such heart rending broaddaylight murders by the jail authorities, only goes to show that it is nothing but murder of justice itself by the very custodians of the law. AAP describes it one of the rarest of rare crimes against humanity, where justice needs to be rendered without any further delay.
In the same breath, AAP castigates the statement of one of Badal’s cronies Sh. Prem Singh Chandumajra demanding CBI probe in the Pilibhit jail killings and urges him first to ensure justice of the victims of Behbal Kalan police firing, that left two Sikh youth dead. One cannot demand justice from another state government, while you deny justice for similar offences in Punjab.