PATIALA:  The Additional session judge Bhupinder Singh Wednesday sentenced the Two inspectors and two Constables for three years Rigorous imprisonment and the plenty of 15000 each for torturing abducting, illegally detaining and torturing members of a family in order to pressurize one of their relatives to withdraw a complaint filed against them. 

 In 2001 the local court had framed charges against Inspector Des Raj, SI Gurmail Singh, ASIs Teja Singh, Naib Singh and Ranjit Singh and Head Constables Karamjit Singh and Pritam Singh. 

The court convicted SI Gurmail Singh, ASI's Teja Singh, and Head Constables Karamjit Singh and Pritam Singh.While Ranjit Singh had died during the pendancy of case and court has  exonerated him and Naib Singh 

The Punjab and Haryana High Court in August, 1996, had directed the CBI to conduct an inquiry into the case following a petition filed by Gurdeep Kaur, daughter of Mal Singh and resident of Gurusar village in Muktsar district and her brothers Gurmit Singh and Gurcharan Singh. 

During the course of inquiry by the CBI it was revealed that Gurmit Singh, one of the petitioners, who was posted as Special Police Officer (SPO) at Sadar police station, Muktsar, was picked up from the premises by Head Constables Karamjit Singh and Pritam Singh. He was illegally detained and tortured due to which he sustained injuries and had to be hospitalised. 

According to the CBI report, despite complaints by Gurmit no action was taken against the erring policemen and when he filed a criminal complaint in the court of the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate his family was picked up by the police in order to pressurise him to withdraw the case or reach a compromise with the police officials. According to the CBI report, the family of the petitioners were abducted, illegally detained and tortured at various places by the other five accused. It said even the household goods of the relatives of the SPO were forcibly taken away by the police officials and were later on returned on the orders of the high court. 

The report stated that the relatives of the SPO, including his brother Manjit Singh, his father Mal Singh, his mother Jagir Kaur and sister Malkiat Kaur were picked up and taken to Gidderbaha police station and illegally detained there by SI Gurmail Singh and ASI Teja Singh. Subseqently, a warrant officer of the high court raided the police station and recovered the detainees from its premises. It was also revealed during investigation that Manjit Singh and Jit Singh, both brothers of petitioner Gurmit Singh, were also abducted by SI Gurmail Singh and ASI Teja Singh and other police officials from bus stand at Lambi when they were on their way to meet the Director-General of Police, Punjab.

The CBI in its charge sheet accused the police officials of having committed offences under sections 120 (b), 342, 343, 346 and 211, IPC.