As the Sikh world in Jammu and Kash­mir is yet to come to terms with the al­leged mur­der of for­mer Pres­i­dent of the State Gur­d­wara Par­band­hak Board Jammu and Kash­mir and Na­tional Con­fer­ence vet­eran leader Tar­lochan Singh Wazir, the All-Party Sikh Co­or­di­na­tion Com­mit­tee-AP­SCC Chair­per­son Jag­mo­han Singh Raina has de­manded a Cen­tral Bu­reau of In­dia -CBI en­quiry into the mys­te­ri­ous cir­cum­stances which led to his killing in down­town Delhi in the house of a new ac­quain­tance.

While the Delhi po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the al­leged mur­der, a pall of gloom has de­scended on Sikhs in Jammu and Kash­mir. Sikh lead­ers in Delhi, Pun­jab and Kash­mir have also ex­pressed shock at the crime as there does not seem to be a clear motto. The Na­tional Con­fer­ence has also ex­pressed grief at his demise.

He was in Delhi for a few days prior to his board­ing a flight to Canada on 2 Sep­tem­ber, to meet his fam­ily there. As per news­pa­per re­ports, the new ac­quain­tance Harpreet Singh is miss­ing and a po­lice man­hunt has been launched to trace him.

In a state­ment is­sued in Sri­na­gar, the AP­SCC com­mit­tee leader Jag­mo­han Singh Raina has re­called his con­tri­bu­tion to the Sikh com­mu­nity and the trans­port in­dus­try and tak­ing into ac­count the grav­ity of the crime sought a full-scale CBI in­ves­ti­ga­tion into the al­leged mur­der.

The World Sikh News em­pathises with the fam­ily and Sikhs of the re­gion. We re­call his com­mit­ment to the au­then­tic Nanakshahi cal­en­dar and his di­rec­tion to  Gur­d­waras in Jammu and Kash­mir four years ago, as re­ported by WSN, to ob­serve Sikh re­li­gious pro­grammes as per the Nanakshahi cal­en­dar adopted by the Sikhs in 2003 at Akal Takht Sahib.

A promi­nent mem­ber of the Sikh com­mu­nity in Jammu and Kash­mir, a for­mer Mem­ber of the Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil of J & K, Tar­lochan Singh Wazir played a promi­nent role in the Sikh af­fairs of the state.  A doyen of the trans­port in­dus­try of Jammu and Kash­mir, serv­ing as pres­i­dent of the J & K Trans­port Com­pa­nies As­so­ci­a­tion for two decades, he con­tributed sub­stan­tially to­wards the wel­fare of trans­porters and all peo­ple as­so­ci­ated with the trans­port in­dus­try.