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‘We Spent ₹40L To Send Him To US Via Dunki Route’
Gurdaspur: The household of trucker Jashanpreet Singh, who smashed into aggregate vehicles, allegedly nether the power of drugs, and killed astatine slightest 3 radical successful California, is numb with daze and disbelief."He was an 'Amritdhari (baptized Sikh)' who ne'er took drugs oregon alcohol. He was disciplined and god-fearing. It indispensable person been an unfortunate accident, not negligence," said his maternal uncle, Gurbaksh Singh, successful Purana Shala colony of Punjab's Gurdaspur district. They are praying for the victims who mislaid their lives, helium said, portion besides appealing for mercy for Jashanpreet. "Save my son," his parent Jasveer Kaur pleaded with everyone she saw astatine her doorstep.
The ambiance successful the tiny location was dense with grief Friday arsenic quality broke of Jashanpreet's apprehension and the video of his motortruck barrelling into California postulation went viral.The 22-year-old took the 'dunki route' to the US but lone to enactment his household backmost home, said relatives.Jashanpreet's begetter Kulwinder Singh, who works arsenic a schoolhouse autobus driver, tin hardly talk arsenic relatives and villagers sojourn to console the family.
"Please assistance our boy. He went overseas lone to physique our future, not harm anyone," his parent said, successful hardly a whisper. Gurbaksh said the family's humble location was built done loans. Kulwinder spent astir Rs 40 lakh, overmuch of which helium borrowed, to nonstop Jashanpreet overseas - though illegally."He wanted to enactment hard, repay the debt, and commencement a tiny business," said Gurbaksh, adding, arsenic a baptized Sikh, Jashanpreet ne'er touched drugs oregon alcohol. Farmer person and societal activistic Ranjit Singh, who visited the family, urged some Centre and Punjab govt to instrumentality up the substance with US authorities.
