Kin seeks return of Sikh woman
At Amritsar on April 10 for accompanying the Sikh jatha which was going to Pakistan to celebrate Baisakhi there.
Chandigarh/Hoshiarpur: The father-in-law of a 32-year-old woman, Kiran Bala, who has reportedly remarried in Lahore, on Thursday sought the Centre’s intervention for her safe return to the country.
Hoshiarpur-based Ms Bala’s father-in-law Tarsem Singh sought the Centre’s interference fearing that she might have fallen into the hands of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and forced to convert into Islam and remarry there.
The woman had gone to Pakistan to attend the Baisakhi festival there as part of an SGPC Sikh ‘jatha’ (delegation). “I had dropped Kiran Bala, who is my daughter-in-law, at Amritsar on April 10 for accompanying the Sikh jatha which was going to Pakistan to celebrate Baisakhi there. She was very happy at that time,” said Mr Tarsem.
A senior official of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, said the panel has sought a report on the circumstances she was separated from the ‘jatha.’