E/CN.4/1991/17 page 25 confirmed those findings but did not order the State to pay compensation and failed to take steps to prosecute the guilty police officers. The court left it to the accused persons "to move the appropriate civil or criminal courts for suitable action including compensation and criminal prosecution". Another suspect, Jaggu Lakishman Chavan, who also belongs to the Pardhi tribe, was arrested in Bombay on 14 February 1989 and died on 3 March 1989 in the Panvel municipal hospital, while still in police custody, allegedly as a result of injuries received under torture. According to the police Chavan died of an "unidentified illness". But the 19 men arrested in the same case claimed that he died as a result of severe police beatings, and some said they were present when he was being tortured. But two doctors who carried out a post—mortem examination said they did not find injuries on the body, although one of them said he found the right hand to be bent. It was further reported that Kuljit Singh Dhatt, from the village of Ambala Jattan, Hoshiapur District, was arrested (on an unspecified date, probably in the second half of 1989), from the home of Reeve Gurmail Singh in the village of Garrhi. It was alleged that Kuljit Singh was taken to the Tanda Police Station where he was tortured with an electromagnetic device known as garari. The device was allegedly applied to his genitals by a Police Superintendent whose name was transmitted to the Government, while other police constables were holding him. Kuljit Singh reportedly died of a heart failure, allegedly as a result of the prolonged torture to which he was subjected. Indonesia Urgent appeals and Government replies 79. On 2 May 1990 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Indonesia concerning three East Timorese students: Fernad Trindade, aged 17, Mario Trindade, aged 22, and Felizberto Mascarenhas, aged 23, who were reportedly arrested by military police on 26 April 1990 in Denpasar, Bali, and were allegedly subjected to torture. 80. On 1 June 1990 the Indonesian Government provided more details on the circumstances of the arrest of the three aforementioned students, which reportedly followed a fight with a West Timorese student. The three students were released on 1 May 1990. It was affirmed that they had not been subjected to torture or ill-treatment at any stage of the proceedings. 81. On 16 October 1990 the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Indonesia concerning Aleixo Laga, aged 22, a pupil at Sao Jose Externato School in Dili, East Timor, who was arrested in that town on 11 September 1990. It was alleged that on the day of his arrest he was taken to the Dili Police Office and kept in a water tank, and that since then he has been subjected almost daily to torture. It was reported that his family had recently been given permission to visit him and that they found him weak from lack of food, and his face swollen and covered with cuts and bruises. Fears were expressed that he may not be able to survive if torture and maltreatment did not stop. 82. On 20 November 1990 the Government of Indonesia informed the Special Rapporteur that Aleixo Laga was released after being questioned, on condition that he reported regularly to the authorities, but he had never done so and since his release his whereabouts had not been known. During the proceedings

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