Paramjeet Kaur last saw her father, Sardar Jorawar Singh, on January 22 when she went to meet him at the Singhu border between Delhi and Haryana. A 75-year-old farmer from Ludhiana’s Ikkolahi village, Jorawar Singh had been protesting against the new agricultural laws since November 26, camped at Singhu along with thousands of other farmers from Punjab and Haryana.
“He had been living out there in the cold winter for two months,” said Paramjeet Kaur, 37. “I urged him to go back home. But he said he would not leave the protest until the laws were removed, even if it meant dying at the border.”
On January 23, unable to convince her father, Paramjeet Kaur returned to her village. On the night of January 26, she received frightening news: Jorawar Singh was missing.
“My father must have gone towards Lal Qila with other farmers in the rally, because some of those other people were later found in jails. But no one has been able to find my Bapuji,” said Paramjeet…