2 Doaba NRIs shot dead in US
Saturday, 07/09/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20130907/punjab.htm#4
Jalandhar: Two Doaba-based NRIs, one hailing from Jalandhar and the other from Tanda in Hoshiarpur, were reportedly shot dead by some assailants inside their convenience store in the US last night.
It being morning there, Jagtar Singh Bhatti (52) of Preet Nagar locality here and his cashier Pawan Singh of Dadiyan village in Tanda had just opened their store in Elkhart, South Indiana, when two masked men, probably with intent to loot, barged in and gunned down both of them. Bhatti's wife Jaswinder Kaur and son Dalwinder Singh Bhatti are in a state of shock. Dalwinder said his father had moved abroad 14 years ago and was joined there by his younger brother Palwinder Singh and sister Amarjit Kaur last year.
"My father owns two stores and a filling station in the US. My brother was working in another store nearby when he heard about the incident. My father had no rivalry and we are told it was an act of robbery," he said.
Victim's wife Jaswinder Kaur urged the authorities concerned in the government to get her husband's body at the earliest.
NRI Sabha president Jasvir Singh Gill said he would raise the matter with Punjab NRI Affairs Minister Bikram Majithia and even Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to pursue the matter with the US Government.
