Sukhpreet Grewal, the advocate of these families whose children have gone missing, said the case was disposed of by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2023 and the CBI had registered the case.“A total of 102 youths from the country went to the US in 2010 via ‘dunky route’; 42 from Punjab never reached their destination and nobody knows the last time they contacted their families. The CBI is investigating this case,”’ Grewal said.“Jaswant Singh, father of Varinder Singh, filed a petition in 2010, on which an FIR was registered after High Court intervention. Anticipatory bails of the accused were dismissed but instead of arresting them, Punjab police filed a cancellation report. After that Singh filed another petition in 2013, which was decided by the HC in 2023. During the hearing of the petition, the fact that more than 100 youths were missing was brought to the knowledge of the HC. Three more families also filed petitions. After that investigation was handed over to CBI,’’ the advocate said.“It was on January 2, 2012 that the customs officials at the Indira Gandhi Intentional Airport seized a bag containing 102 passports but no case was registered and some passports were of these missing youth,’’ she said. It is suspected that from Delhi the agents took them to Doha but it is not confirmed as no immigration record of their entry was available there, she added.Another family now settled in Canada, whose son Harsimranjit Singh Dhaliwal had gone missing then, has approached Grewal. “This family is in touch with more than eight families whose children were missing since then. Dhaliwal’s sister went to the US to locate her brother and wrote multiple emails to US authorities as well as CBI. She also came to India and met officials of the NRI wing of Punjab police, besides CBI officials,” said Grewal.
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