Photo: Special arrangementīack home, Satnam and Sukvinder were clueless on how to establish contact with their brother. Police managed to get custody of him for the next three days. He was produced in a Delhi court a day later. Lovepreet also put in a few links in a WhatsApp group of known Khalistani sympathisers and members of a banned group.Īlso read: Rampant Arrests, Rare Convictions: In Punjab, the UAPA Is Ripe for MisuseĪ month after his Facebook page went up, Lovepreet was picked up by the Delhi Police’s special cell from the border of Haryana and Punjab. He also posted photos of the damage to the Golden Temple after Operation Blue Star, besides messages from Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. On this page, Lovepreet posted a video that showed people, including himself, marching and shouting ‘Khalistan Zindabad’ at a rally. Havara is serving a life sentence for the assassination of Beant Singh, a former chief minister of Punjab who was killed in a car bomb in 1995. The page was a public one, and Lovepreet made a photograph of Jagtar Singh Havara the profile photo. He put up a page on Facebook on May 18, 2020. Lovepreet’s second stumble came a few months later. Sikhs, a respected minority, were siding with Muslims, a minority the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had successfully othered – or so it thought. Photos of a thin Sikh boy, not quite a man yet, in a saffron turban and jeans, standing next to large degchis, went viral. “He said he has to go do seva in Delhi he will be back in a few days,” recalled Satnam. In January, he took permission from their father to participate in a langar in Delhi.
Lovepreet regularly participated in serving langar, where young bodies are always welcome.
The idea is one of the unique features of the Sikh faith – seva or care for others through langar or community projects. Something emerges from talking to those close to him or still in touch with him: Lovepreet loves to feed people. It is not easy to sketch a portrait of someone who is no longer visible to the world. He was most probably tortured after arrest. Lovepreet is in jail, and has been for close to a year. Her children had no access to lawyers and were not financially equipped to unravel the complicated law – the dreaded Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) – that had put Lovepreet out of their reach. Their mother fell ill, uncertain and fearful of the ability of a family of daily wagers to fight such serious charges. It would take days of Satnam running from pillar to post before he got a confirmation of his brother’s whereabouts. Village intelligence, though, reached them with a chilling message: Delhi Police had picked up their youngest brother, the baby of the family, 21-year-old Lovepreet.
Lovepreet distributing food during the lockdown.
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