Missing NRI: Punjab Police sent wrong body, says family

The family has now taken to social media to seek help to trace him. “No one has corrected the media in stating that Ranjit’s body has not been found. Our family had an agonising wait for a formal identification of a body found in India, to discover it was not Ranjit…,” reads a post on a Facebook page titled ‘Help Find Ranjit Singh Powar’.

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Powar, a millionaire hotelier from Wolverhampton, went missing after landing in Punjab on May 8 this year. The Jalandhar police had then alleged he was killed by his business partner Baldev Singh Deol (an NRI ) and his nephew Sukhdev Singh. The latter has been arrested.

In an email sent to journalists, however, Powar’s daughter, Emma Laura, on Monday stated the recovered body was not of her father. ADCP -2, Jalandhar, Amrik Singh Puar, on the other hand, said police had received an email from the British High Commission in September, saying a DNA test was conducted on the body. He said the email did not mention the test’s result.

Puar said a DNA test conducted in the UK may not be valid in Indian courts.