2 Cops Convicted in Fake Encounter Cases Attacked inside Patiala jail

On 10 Sep, Sandeep Singh alias Sunny, an inmate at the Patiala Central Jail attacked three fellow convicts who are convicted policemen. Sandeep is an undertrial in the murder of Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri who was killed in Amritsar in November 2022. The policemen are Deputy Superintendent Police Gurbachan Singh, retired Inspector Suba Singh, and dismissed Inspector Inderjit Singh. Gurbachan and Suba were both on life imprisonment in different extrajudicial killing cases. Gurbachan was convicted in Jul 2024 for cases dating 1992. Suba was convicted in Aug 2025 for cases dating 1993. Inderjeet was arrested in 2017 after a Panjab police Special Task Force seized drugs and a huge cache of arms and ammunition from him. While all three policemen are in the Intensive Care Unit, Suba has received grave injuries on his skull and face and doctors performed craniotomy on him. He is alive, but brain dead. Suba’s family has disowned him and not taken his charge. There is speculation about whether the attack was with a rod, a kada (iron bracelet) or sharpened cutlery. Neither have Sandeep’s lawyers met their client, nor have the jail authorities questioned him as they await more security. Meanwhile on 12 Sep, in village Jeeda, Bathinda, father Jagtar Singh and son 19-year-old Gurpreet Singh were seriously injured in explosions at their home. The explosions were linked to picric acid—a highly explosive, yellow-colored compound—which Gurpreet had ordered online. Police said no traces of shrapnel or severe incendiary were found at the explosion site during the preliminary probe. 'Windowpanes of the entire house were smashed by the impact of the blasts. The household items in the room, where the explosive powder was kept before the blasts, were damaged,' said an official. Sleuths from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) rushed to the village to ascertain any links with terrorists. On the basis of mobile phone records, the IB claims it found Gurpreet to be a follower of Pakistan-based Azhar Masood, head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, a terrorist outfit (earlier coverage).