Jaswant Singh Khalra
Aka Bhai Khalra
Attain Shaheedi on 6 September 1995
Male, age 43
Demographics
Residence
Khalra, Patti, Tarn Taran
Father Name
Sardar Kartar Singh
Mother Name
Mata Mukhtar Kaur
Siblings (including Shaheed)
three brothers Rajinder Singh Sandhu, Amarjeet Singh Sandhu (both live in the United Kingdom) and Gurdev Singh Sandhu (lives in Austria) and five sisters: Paritam Kaur, Mohinder Kaur, Harjinder Kaur (retired BEO) Balbir Kaur (retired headteacher) and Beant Kaur.
Date of Birth
2 November, 1952
Married
Yes
Husband/Wife Name
Bibi Paramjit Kaur Khalra (married on 25 June 1981)
Children
One Daughter; Bibi Navkiran Kaur Khalra (1985) and Bhai Janmit Singh (1987)
Education
Graduated
Employment
Panchayat Secretary, then Director of Cooperative Bank in Hall Bazar, Amritsar
Other Activites
Human Rights Activist
Other Family Information
Indian Fridom Fighter Family
Kharku Sangarsh
Kharku Status
Not Kharku
Jathebandi Name
Jathedar
n/a
Shaheedi Details
Date of Last Arrest
06 September 1995 from his Residence in Kabir Park, Amritsar
Abducted by
SSP Ajit Singh Sandhu aka Khabu
Shaheedi Date
Disappeared since 06 September 1995
Encounter type
Disappeared
Place of Shaheedi
Dumped body in canal/river
Name of Sathi Singh who got Shaheed together
not any
Family Reflections
Other Member Shaheed in Family
not any
Jiwni/Biographic Information
Shaheedi of Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra:
On September 6, 1995, while Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra was washing his car outside his home, he was forcibly taken by members of the Punjab Police and transported to Jhabal Police Station. Despite eyewitnesses providing testimonies linking the police to the abduction and identifying Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, the Director General of the Punjab Police, as a key figure behind the conspiracy, the police denied ever arresting or holding Khalra. They further claimed to have no information regarding his location.
In 1996, the Central Bureau of Investigation uncovered evidence that Bhai Jaswant Singh Khalra had been detained at a police station in Tarn Taran and recommended charging nine Punjab police officers with kidnapping and murder. Despite the findings, those implicated in his killing were not formally charged for a decade. One of the suspects, Senior Superintendent of Police Ajit Singh Sandhu, was reported to have died by suicide in 1997, although the circumstances suggested it was staged. On November 18, 2005, six Punjab police officers were convicted for Khalra’s abduction and murder. Deputy Superintendent Jaspal Singh and Amarjit Singh received life sentences, while the remaining four were sentenced to seven years in prison. On October 16, 2007, the Punjab and Haryana High Court, with Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and A. N. Jindal presiding, extended life imprisonment to the other four: Satnam Singh, Surinder Pal Singh, Jasbir Singh (all former sub-inspectors), and Prithipal Singh (former head constable).
On April 11, 2011, the Supreme Court of India upheld the life sentences for the four convicted officers, harshly criticizing the human rights violations carried out by the Punjab Police during the unrest.
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