Jaswant Singh Khalra is back in the headlines after Diljit Dosanjh’s Satluj. The film follows the story of how he fought for the rights of 25,000 people who had allegedly disappeared and even lost his life in the struggle for justice. As the film brings back his chilling story, let’s take a look at who he really was and his family members.
Who was Jaswant Singh Khalra?
Jaswant Singh Khalra was a Punjab-based human rights activist who passed away in 1995 and has recently returned to the limelight, thanks to Satluj, starring Diljit Dosanjh as the lead character of ‘Jaswant Singh Khalra’. However, who was Khalra before he found himself in the middle of the political chaos? For the uninitiated, Khalra was an ordinary man who worked as a bank manager and led a relatively mundane life. That was until he began to doubt the disappearance of over 25,000 people and couldn’t get the police records to align with the purchase history of wood used for cremation.
Soon, he turned from a normal man to a human rights activist who had the entire system fearing his voice. However, in 1995, he suddenly disappeared and was never found again, not alive at least. The Punjab Police first regarded Khalra’s death as a suicide, but in 2005, six Punjab police officers were found guilty and given seven years in prison for kidnapping and killing Khalra.
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