“He is only 28 years old, it was his bad luck,” said the family and village of Indian origin Harjinder Singh, who stares at a potential 45 -year imprisonment for allegedly causing a deadly accident in the US.
When they gathered and called for a benevolent punishment, a campaign was also launched to generate support for a 28 -year -old Rataul driver in the Tarn Taran Pandjab district.
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Here’s what happened
Harjinder Singh (28) faces the murder of the US vehicle in the US for alleged ways, causing an accident, resulting in the death of three people on the Florida highway on August 12, according to the media report. He managed a trailer with a tractor and allegedly took the illegal turn of U.
After the accident he fled to California, but after the arrest he was brought back to Florida, New York Post reported on Thursday.
During the week after the incident, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a break on all issuing work visas drivers of commercial trucks.
The growing number of foreign drivers operating large trucks on American roads threatens American lives and undermines the livelihood of American truckers, Rubio published on social media.
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Panjab leaders say:
The Minister of Cabinet Punjab Sanjeev ARORA wrote to the Union’s government, which urged an interference with a matter related to frozen work visas for foreign truck drivers, especially Punjabis, with the United States government.
In his letter sent on Saturday, the arra mentioned that the step that the US government would take after an accident on the Florida highway, which included pandjaby drivers, threatened the living of 1.5 lakh pandjab drivers.
He appealed to the Minister of External Affairs and the Indian Embassy to start a dialogue with the US government and state that the entire community of Pandjabs is punished on the basis of one incident.
Previously, Shiromanian Akali gave Bathinda, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, urged the Minister of External Affairs with Jaishankar to ensure that the attitude of the advisors would be provided to Harjinder so that his case could be reasonably asked.
Badal also urged the center to take the question of freezing the work visas of all foreign truck drivers after a fatal accident.
It also urged the Jaishankar to tell the US government that the Pandjab community played a crucial role in satisfying the high demand for drivers and alleviating the driver’s deficiency to the US consumers and its economy.
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Meanwhile, the petition on the online platform Change.org was created by a group – collective Punjabi Youth, which called for a reduced punishment for Harjinder and claimed that a tragic accident was not a deliberate act.
Although it depends on responsibility, the severity of the accusation against him is not compared to the circumstances of the incident, she said. She received over 18 lakh signatures to support.
Here is what the family and village of Harjinder Singh said:
Dilbagag Singh, one of his relatives, said Harjin’s family was unable to speak anything. “The family is in shock,” he said.
“We are also grinding the death of three people in an accident. Similar incidents also took place earlier,” Dilbagh told reporters in Tarn Taran.
“His age is 28 years old, and if he gets 45 years in prison, you can imagine what his family’s condition will be,” he added, attracting to Sikh’s bodies to come to give Harjinder to help.
He said Harjinder left for the US after a mortgage in 2018.
Harjinder’s older brother, Tejinder Singh, lives with his family and their mother in Tarn Taren. Their father is no longer and the family is dealing with agriculture.
Many local residents in the village of Rataul supported Harjinder and called him a hardworking man. Although they acknowledged that Harjinder had made mistakes, they demanded that the US authorities would not accept a severe punishment.
Village Sarpanch Jashandeep Singh said he was standing with his family and asked for Harjinder no harsh punishment.
The older village also urged the US government to show lenience towards Harjinder. “It was his bad luck that such an accident occurred,” he said.
Another village said Harjinder did not intentionally. The accident is running out, he said.
Although it was his fault to make a turn, he should not be given any rough punishment; Otherwise, his whole life would have been destroyed, he said.
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