Candle Light March to register protest over failure to trace missing Prof Sukhpreet Kaur
Ferozepur, September 20, 2017: On Tuesday evening, the students of Dev Samaj College for Women today organized a Candle Light March to register their protest over the failure of the administration for not cracking the missing case of Prof Sukhpreet Kaur of Baghapurana (Moga) working as an ad hoc Assistant Profession in the Hindi Department at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
Today Candle Light March by the students was led by Principal Madhu Prashar and Dr.Ambuj Sharma, HOD, Philosphy Department and Sukhmanfeet Kaur, President Philosphical Soceity, Dev Samaj College for Women – shouting slogans – Modi Ji bring back Sukhpreet, Wake-up Centre and Punjab government, Arreest Garry Virk, Why GNDU mum over the issue?
Earlier a memorandum was submitted to the Deputy Commissioner and SSP Ferozepur demanding immediate arrest of the accused and cracking the missing case.
Addressing the protesters, Dr.Madhu Prashar said, Dr.Sukhpreet Kaur did her graduation from Dev Samaj College for Women and she was an intelligent student. Its’ eight days back when she was kidnapped and September 18 was her birthday and in her absence on this special day, the family members of Sukhpreet are under depression but with a hope of her coming back.
She said, the college has always taken a stand in favour of the rights of the women and today’s protest is also in support of her and in case the whereabouts of Sukhpreet are not locate by the government and administration and accused are not arrested, we will not hestitate to intensify the agitation.
Meanwhile, Sukhpreeet's mentor and Prof in Dev Samaj College for Women, Ambuj Sharma said the students and faculty of teh college had organized a candle light march for Sukhpreet who was a brillian student and we all wish for her safe return.
Brief history of the case as published in the newspapers : A 30-year-old assistant professor at Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) has gone missing. According to the university officials she went to meet someone outside the campus on September 11.
The police found a note on her table. It says: “I am going to meet Jazzinder Singh Virk alias Garry at Subway or Chocolate Home in the university market. He is from Kharar and resides in street No 2 of Dashmesh Nagar on the Jhuggian road. (The names of Virk’s parents and their telephone numbers are also mentioned). He has to return money which he had borrowed from me. If anything happens to me, he should be held responsible”.
The police have collected CCTV footage from Chocolate Home which Sukhpreet visited at 5:16 pm on September 11. She returned soon as the man was not there. She later met him in the parking area and went with him in his car, the police said. The car then drove towards Putligarh on the GT Road.
Sukhdev Singh, security officer, GNDU, said: “The head of her department received a call from Sukhpreet’s father on September 14. We then intimated the police.”
Sukhpreet’s father alleged that he had received a call from her daughter’s number. The caller demanded a ransom of Rs 3 lakh. The police have registered a case under Section 365 (kidnapping) of the IPC.
A police team from cantonment police station raided several locations in Kharar and Chandigarh. The police traced Sukhpreet’s mobile phone location in Chandigarh.
Vishaljit Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police (West), said: “Hopefully, we will crack the case soon.”
