100-yr-old woman, who waged legal battle for ''lost'' son, dies waiting for justice

Satya Prakash

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 12

Amar Kaur, who waged a legal battle to get justice for her son, son-in-law and driver – not seen again after allegedly kidnapped by former Punjab Director General of Police SS Saini almost 24 years ago – died here on Tuesday, family sources said.

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Kaur (100) was bed-ridden for a decade due to brain stroke. She breather her last at 3.40 pm, her son Ashish Kumar told The Tribune. She will be cremated at Lodhi Crematorium here on Wednesday.

Amar Kaur had deposed against Saini in a Delhi court while being in a wheelchair supported by an ambulance almost a decade ago.

She had sent a telegram from her bed in Moolchand Hospital in the capital to the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on July 8, 2011, requesting him to fast track the trial and hold hearing on a day-to-day basis so that she could get justice in her lifetime and her soul could rest in peace.

“I have lost everything today with the death of my mother. She could not get justice in her lifetime. The judicial system should not drag on a case for such a long time that people die waiting for justice. No person, howsoever powerful he may be, should be allowed to misuse the system to unnecessarily delay a trial,” Ashish said breaking down inconsolably.

Her automobile businessman-son Vinod Kumar, son-in-law Ashok Kumar and their driver Mukhtiyar Singh never returned home after being picked up by police in Ludhiana and Chandigarh on March 15, 1994.

A criminal case was registered against Saini and others by CBI on the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on March 24, 1994. The case was transferred to Delhi by the Supreme Court in 2004 after Kaur expressed apprehension that Saini being a senior IPS officer might use his might to influence witnesses.