Sunil Singh’s one-room accommodation at Sandhawala village in Punjab’s Faridkot district. (Source: Express photo) Sunil Singh’s one-room accommodation at Sandhawala village in Punjab’s Faridkot district. (Source: Express photo)

A family of four from Sandhawala village in Faridkot who went to Pakistan to celebrate Baisakhi on April 11 has gone missing. The jatha of 170 people that the family was accompanying returned to Punjab on April 20 without them.

The Faridkot police have begun inquiring into the details of 38-year-old Sunil Singh, his wife, Sunita (27), daughter Huma Kaur (9) and son Umer Singh (10). “We are inquiring into the details of the family,” said Senior Superintendent of Police, Faridkot, Charanjeet Sharma.

The family was living in a room of a dharamshala in the village for the past three years. Sunil was a farm labourer. The passports and the luggage of the family are lying with the caretaker of Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Pakistan, said Harpal Singh Bhullar, president, Bhai Mardana Society that had taken the jatha to Pakistan.

Bhullar said they were in touch with the Pakistan Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandak Committee and the Ukaf Board, Pakistan, for information about the family’s whereabouts.

Bhullar said a few group members had last seen the entire family near Baba Bohr Singh Toota Walaian where they were to take a dip in the Panja Sahib sarovar.

Sandhawala Village sarpanch Harjeet Singh, who had met Sunil just once, said he appeared to be very poor and had told them he had come from Rajasthan in search of work. Considering his financial condition, one room of the dharamshala, located on the village outskirts, was given to him for accommodation, said Harjeet.

Sunil and his wife had Aadhar as well as voter cards made from Faridkot on the basis of which they were issued a passport on July 25, 2014.

Bhullar said, “On the basis of the documents available with him, the Bhai Mardana Society sought issuance of visa for the family.” Nanak Singh, a farm labourer who worked with Sunil, said, “Sunil did not talk much. He was very hardworking. We don’t know much about him.”

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