After month’s wait, family to get youth’s body from Libya
Friday, 19/09/2014
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2014/20140919/punjab.htm#9
Hoshiarpur : The long wait of family members of Ranjit Singh (26) — who died on July 29 in Libya — of receiving his body will finally end.
Gagandeep, a cousin of Ranjit, said, “An official of the Ministry of External Affairs called his parents and said the Libyan authorities and the Indian Embassy had informed them that Ranjit’s corpse was being sent.”
His body will reach India on September 21. His parents have been asked to reach Delhi to receive the body.” Ranjit had gone to Libya about 18 months ago to earn a living.
Ranjit, a youth from Talwandi Araian village of Hoshiarpur district, was the son of a former Army Subedar. His parents have been waiting for his body for over one and a half months.
Earlier, they had called his company’s officials and the Indian Embassy several times but they were told that since the Tripoli airport had been blown off by anarchists, it would take some time to send the body. MP Avinash Rai Khanna had taken up the matter with the Ministry of External Affairs and assured the family that Ranjit’s body would be brought to India soon.
