Punjabi boy gone to Lebanon traced in Kot Lakhpat jail

AMRITSAR: Whereabouts of Jatinderpal Singh who had gone to Lebanon for job in 2007 have been traced in Kot Lakhpat jail in Pakistan. Pakistani advocate Awais Sheikh told TOI on Friday that Harjinder Singh, father of Jatinderpal Singh informed his son was lodged in jail there and has sought his help to get him released.
He further informed that Jatinderpal had gone to Lebanon through a travel agent who had assured him of a good job but the later abandoned him.
"Since then his whereabouts are not known to his family and it is also not clear as to how he reached Pakistan and landed in jail there," said he.
Recalling his meeting with Harjinder Singh during his visit to Amritsar in 2009, Sheikh said Jatinderpal Singh's father had met him and told about the disappearance of his son while apprehending that he could be in Pakistani jail. "I tried to find out and later told his father that his son was not confined in any jail of Pakistan" said he. He said on Thursday Harjinder Singh again called him to inform that he had come to know that his son was in Kot Lakhpat jail for past 4 years.
"Harjinder Singh told me that he had came to know from reliable sources (presumably Indian prisoners released from Kot Lakhpat jail) about presence of his son in jail" said Sheikh.
Harjinder Singh had sent a power of attorney to Sheikh and had also written a letter to Indian High Commission in Islamabad for the release of his son . Family members of Jatinderpal Singh had also lodged a complaint of his missing with police on December 15, 2007 added he. Sheikh said he would submit a letter to Home Secretary, Punjab for the grant of permission to meet Jatinderpal Singh and would also demand for Jatinderpal's case details from Inspector General, Prisons. About Bhavesh Kantilal Parmar, a Mumbai based architect who is also lodged in Kot Lakhpat jail, Sheikh said he was yet to get the case details following which he would chalk out his course of action.
About the possibility of Indian Prisoner of War in Pakistani jail as Tanmaya Singh Dandas who had gone missing in 1971 Indo Pak conflict after his plane was shot at Sargodha, Pakistan, Sheikh said "We don't know the whereabouts of Dandas but his family believes that he is in Pakistani prison, I have submitted a letter with Inspector General, Prison seeking details of Dandas, if he is in any Pakistani jail" he said.