Jalandhar, April 21
Coping with the tragedy that struck a year ago, Harneek Kaur is keeping herself busy by helping her 18-month-old daughter Anaiya walk on her staggering feet.

Though she is trying to overcome the shock that she sustained after the murder of her young husband and leading hotelier Gurkirat Singh Sekhon alias Gikki, yet old memories continue to haunt her. Gikki was shot dead by his own friends including municipal councilor and nephew of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Sarabjit Singh Makkar at midnight on April 20 outside Baba Rasoi in Model Town.

As Harneet Kaur didn’t want to talk, Gikki’s father Rajbir Singh Sekhon, in a choked voice, recalled that the dark night which traumatised a happy family.

The shattered father said, “Zoran, Gikki’s son who was just three-and-a-half years old when his father was murdered, misses his father a lot. He kisses his father’s photo before going to bed every night.”

“We have full faith in God and the judiciary. Justice may be delayed, but not denied,” Rajbir said.

“The accused are politically well connected and trying their best to escape punishment. You can imagine the trauma which the family, especially Gikki’s widow and mother Randeep Kaur, is facing,” he said. Members of Jat Sikh Welfare Sabha today held a meeting on Gikki’s first death anniversary. Gikki was the general secretary of the sabha. The sabha has sympathised with the Sekhon family and demanded exemplary punishment to the accused.

Ram Simran Singh Makkar alias Prince, a municipal councillor, Amardeep Singh Sachdeva, a practicing advocate and son of a senior leading advocate, Amanpreet Singh Narula alias Prince Narula and Jasdeep Singh alias Jassu, son of the owner of a city-based hotelier, are accused in the Gikki murder case and are lodged in Gurdaspur jail.