Version imprimableHindustan Times, Feb 14, 2022
On personal cost, the Bains Committee travelled to jails across Punjab, meeting the imprisoned. In just two-and-a-half months, it finalised its report, recommending the release of 6,000 languishing detainees against whom it found no credible evidence
by Mallika Kaur
In 1946, Amrit Kaur sent her son, Ajit, away from their houseful of Leftist revolutionaries at Mahilpur village in Hoshiarpur to study law in Lucknow. She worried he might be arrested by the British government before he had even started his life. The young man would become a respected Justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court, retire in 1984, and become the
