NRI to climb Mt Mckinley to seek justice for murder victim
Tuesday, 14/08/2012
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JALANDHAR: After planting a flag at Mount Everest base camp in December last year demanding justice for a hotelier’s murder, a non-resident Indian will now climb Mount McKinley in Alaska, the highest peak in North America, for the same cause.
Vandeeep Sanghera at the Mount Everest base camp last year.
Vandeep Sanghera, 40, a dentist based at Chelmsford in London, said he would attempt to unfurl a flag highlighting Gurkirat Singh Sekhon’s murder case by reaching the summit of the 6,194-metre-high peak by the end of August.
Discussing his plan, Sanghera said: “I will be leaving for New York from London on August 16. From there, I will head for Seattle, then to Anchorage in Alaska. From Anchorage I will travel alone to Denali National Park. From there I will begin my ascent to Mount McKinley. I am confident of reaching the summit.”
“I had visited the base camp of Mount Everest, 17,598 feet above sea level, with the aim of seeking justice for Sekhon, who was shot dead,” Sanghera said.
Sanghera’s parents are from Wadala in Jalandhar district. “I came to know about the murder last year through news websites and Facebook,” he said. “I decided to raise the issue in a different way and planned the trip to the base camp to unfurl a banner over there.”
Gurkirat Singh, a city hotelier was shot dead by four persons on April 21 last year. The main accused, Ram Simran Singh Makkar alias Prince Makkar, is the nephew of Sarabjit Singh Makkar, a Shiromani Akali Dal (B) leader and former Adampur MLA. The other three accused are Sunny Sachdeva, Prince Narula and Jasdeep Jassu.
