‘Still searching for truth’: Daughter of Sikh activist killed 30 years ago

On the morning of September 6, 1995, human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra was washing his car outside his home in Amritsar city, India’s Punjab state.His wife, Paramjit Kaur Khalra, a librarian, was getting ready to leave for work; their son, Janmeet, and daughter, Navkiran, were getting ready for school.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Why is India blocking film on a man who counted Punjab insurgency killings?list 2 of 4Sikh group in Canada slams India over new report into 2023 activist killinglist 3 of 4Indian national admits role in plot to assassinate US Sikh leaderlist 4 of 4Diljit Dosanjh’s new film is a global success. Why can’t Indians watch it?end of listNothing about the morning suggested that, within hours, their lives would be changed forever.Minutes after Paramjit and the children left home, Khalra was picked up by the police, secretly tortured for days in custody, and later murdered. His body was never found.Khalra was killed because of his investigation into thousands of disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the Indian security forces during a separatist movement launched by Punjab’s Sikh community in the 1980s to establish a homeland, calle...