Tribune News Service

Amritsar, June 24

Members of a terrorist-affected family of Amritsar have approached the Chief Minister seeking job on compassionate grounds. Fifty-two-year-old Gurpreet Singh’s father Abnashi Singh was kidnapped and believed to be killed by terrorists in 1980s.

Gurpreet has pleaded to the CM to accommodate either of his jobless sons — Kunwar Partap Singh and Tej Partap Singh. He said Kunwar Partap had done MTech from GNDU, whereas Tej Partap was also a graduate. Their grandfather Abnashi Singh was assistant secretary of the SGPC. He served for two decades with various SGPC chiefs, including one-and-a-half-decade stint with Gurcharan Singh Tohra as PA. On March 31, 1987, he and a Guru Ram Das Hospital medical superintendent were kidnapped and never returned.