Jagmohan Singh
Ghanoli, 8 January
A young man from Ghanoli, who was going to Italy in search of employment, got lost in the forests of Belarus. The family of the 30-year-old youth of village Dasmesh Nagar Colony Ghanoli in Rupnagar district has not got any comfort for 11 months. The family demanded from the Punjab and Central Government to trace their son soon and bring him back to the country.
Ajmer Singh, father of missing youth Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukha and his wife Anju said that Sukhwinder had gone to Turkey in July 2022, where he was employed in a hotel. The family said that a relative of theirs living in Italy came to them some time ago and lured Sukha and another of his colleagues to get a good job when they come to Italy.
According to the family, this relative assured that he would fly them to Italy and take the money only after the work was done. He said that Sukha and his partner Akash came to his words and left their job in Turkey and went to Kyrgyzstan on tourist visa as per the agent’s instructions. After stopping there for a few days, the agents took two lakh rupees from them and sent them to Moscow, the capital of Russia instead of Italy, where 18 people were already present in the room given to them. He said that from there all the youths were introduced to two Pakistani agents who took their passports and two and a half lakh rupees and took them to the forest of Belarus in four different taxis. Three of these taxis turned back.
Latvian police tortured Indian youth
The family of Sukhwinder Singh said that the driver of the taxi with several others ran away leaving the five youths, including their son, near the forest, where they were caught by the Belarusian army and crossed the border to Latvia. The Latvian police caught them and tortured them and released them back into the forest of Belarus. They wandered in the forest for many days. Meanwhile, his son Sukha and Mahendrapal (45), a person from Ganna village of Jalandhar district, were not found. The Pakistani agents left them at police posts at different places under the guise that the police would send them to India after treatment. He said that despite the lapse of 11 months, his boy did not return home, while the body of his partner Mahinderpal was returned after a few months.
