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Slain Indian activist Jaswant Singh Khalra’s daughter, Navkiran, reflects on his life and legacy, which also inspired a recent film on rights abuses by officials during crackdown on Punjab separatist movement. An Indian film, titled Satluj , was banned by the authorities within 48 hours of its release on an OTT platform last month. The film, which was blocked by India’s film censor board for three years, depicts the life and work of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. Khalra was tortured and killed by the police in 1995 for his investigation into thousands of alleged disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the Indian security forces during a separatist movement launched by Punjab’s Sikh community in the 1980s to establish a homeland called Khalistan . Among those forcibly disappeared were one of Khalra’s friends and the friend’s mother, pushing the 42-year-old bank manager on a pursuit of similar cases.
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Police said his claim was exaggerated. On September 6, 1995, Khalra was picked up by the police, secretly tortured for days in custody, and later murdered.
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Slain Indian activist Jaswant Singh Khalra’s daughter, Navkiran, reflects on his life and legacy, which also inspired a recent film on rights abuses by officials during crackdown on Punjab separatist movement. An Indian film, titled Satluj , was banned by the authorities within 48 hours of its release on an OTT platform last month. The film, which was blocked by India’s film censor board for three years, depicts the life and work of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra. Khalra was tortured and killed by the police in 1995 for his investigation into thousands of alleged disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the Indian security forces during a separatist movement launched by Punjab’s Sikh community in the 1980s to establish a homeland called Khalistan . Among those forcibly disappeared were one of Khalra’s friends and the friend’s mother, pushing the 42-year-old bank manager on a pursuit of similar cases.
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