Ashish Kumar last saw his brother Vinod when he was being driven away by a senior police officer in Ludhiana, in northern India. Vinod’s body was never found but the CBI, India’s intelligence agency, believes that the officer, Sumedh Singh Saini, was responsible for his death. They filed murder charges against him within a month. That was in 1994. Twenty-two years have passed since the murder case began. Only three of 36 witnesses have been heard so far. Four witnesses have already died without being presented in court. At 94 years old, Vinod’s mother, Amar Kaur, cannot hear or speak well. She does not seem to understand much about life at present. But when she hears her son’s name, she yells at the top of her voice, “Insaaf!”, which means justice. Kaur, who used to go to court on a stretcher, gave her testimony in the murder case when she was aged 86, 14 years after her son went missing. She asked the court several times to hear her statement sooner, fearing that she did not have long to live. When she was finally heard, the judge had to step down from the podium and stand next to the witness… Read full this story
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