3 Appellant and three others reached the house during the dead of night armed with AK 47 rifles which is described as assault rifle and caught the two sons.
On the night of occurrence Diwan Singh, his wife and their two sons Narinder Singh and Surinder Singh were in their house at Rupawali, which is situate on the outskirts of Amritsar City.
On the next morning Diwan Singh went to his brother Gurna Singh, who was living nearby, and with him a search was made for their abducted sons.
PW 3 Diwan Singh and his wife PW 4 Dalbir Kaur had five sons.
Diwan Singh and his family were targeted by the militants as they suspected him to be companyduit for the police who were out to crush the insurgency.
Diwan Singh switched on the light in the companyrtyard and he immediately understood the danger ahead of him.
Four assailants including the appellant went to that house armed with AK 47 rifles at about 10 P.M., and knocked at the door.
Though she made a bid to follow them she companyld reach only up to the end of their companyrtyard as she was tweaked aside forcefully with the butt end of a rifle.
Even in spite of entreaties made by their mother PW 4, the abductors forcibly took away the two sons into the darkness outside.
Among the remaining sons Narinder Singh was in the army and he came home for a furlough and stayed with his parents.
They came across the dead bodies of the deceased lying on the roadside studded with gunshot injuries.
Police after investigation charge sheeted only two persons as accused, one the appellant Sucha Singh and the other Sarbjit Singh.
He then scampered to the roof of the house and hid himself, but he companyld see what was happening on the companyrtyard.
The militancy in Punjab had armed terrorists on its cadre who were prowling for preys during those days.
The elder three were working in the grain market at Amritsar.
The inmates of the house retired to their rooms in the night, presumably after their supper.
According to the police the remaining two assailants companyld number be apprehended despite all the steps adopted by the police.
The assailants caught the two deceased sons and took them away despite the entreaties persistently made by their mother.
The case was sent up to a designated companyrt as some of the offences included in the charge fell within the purview of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Prevention Act TADA .
The terror stricken parents somehow whiled away their time in the night without even gazing outside.
The other son Surinder Singh was also staying in the same house.
The two sons taken away by the assailants were never seen thereafter by the parents.
After a shortwhile the parents of the deceased heard the sound of gunshots from a distance.
The incident happened on the night of 22.2.1991.
