Human Rights in Punjab

On February 24, nine of the twenty-one accused in the Best Bakery case were convicted of burning fourteen people to death and sentenced to life imprisonment. Eight others were acquitted, while four others have yet to be found.

The judge said he was not awarding capital punishment to the convicts because it could not be ascertained […]

Since Director-General of Punjab Police SS Virk revealed that police falsely declared dead cooperative militants during the counter-insurgency, he has faced criticism from human rights groups concerned about the identity of the falsely tagged bodies. In response, former Director-General of Punjab Police KPS Gill released a letter to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on February 23. […]