Former Police Officers Sentenced for 1993 Fake Encounter Killing in Punjab

A special CBI court in Mohali has sentenced former station house officer Gurbachan Singh and retired DSP Dilbagh Singh to life imprisonment and seven years in jail respectively for killing a fruit-seller, Gulshan Kumar, in a fake encounter in 1993. The prosecution presented compelling evidence leading to their conviction.

A special CBI court in Mohali has sentenced former police officers Gurbachan Singh and Dilbagh Singh to life imprisonment and seven years in jail respectively for their roles in the staged encounter killing of Gulshan Kumar in 1993, officials confirmed.

Former station house officer (SHO) Gurbachan Singh was handed a life sentence, while former deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Dilbagh Singh, who was then DSP of Tarn Taran city and retired as the deputy inspector general (DIG) of police, received a seven-year sentence for kidnapping under section 364 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Gulshan Kumar was abducted from his home on June 22, 1993, held in illegal detention for a month, and killed in a staged encounter on July 22 of the same year. The CBI, which took over the case in 1995 on the Supreme Court's orders, presented 32 witnesses, including eyewitnesses, affirming the accusations against the officers. Kumar's body was cremated by the police without informing his family.

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