LAKHIMPUR KHERI: Lovepreet Singh, 20, was preparing to go to Canada and find work to support his family. Gurwinder Singh, 19, had dropped out of school and turned to his faith to help the poor. Both sons of farmer families died in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Sunday. Their mothers have not recovered and, now, district health officials are monitoring their condition.
On Thursday, while asking the UP government to file a status report on the investigation of the violence, the Supreme Court had in its order said, “The mother of deceased Mr Lovepreet Singh is in critical condition, due to shock of loss of her son, and an oral prayer has been made to provide her best medical treatment.
In view of the above, we direct the learned Additional Advocate General to look into the matter personally and provide best medical treatment to the mother of the deceased in a reputed Government Medical College/Hospital at UP.”
At Bhagwantnagar in Lakhimpur Kheri, Lovepreet’s mother Sarvjeet Kaur has barely spoken a word since he died. “She has stopped eating, talking, responding.
She has gone into depression after losing her son,” Lovepreet’s father Satnam Singh told TOI. “My two daughters are taking care of her. Our relatives are trying to help. But I don’t know how she will recover.”
On Friday morning, the district health department had sent a doctor to check on her. “A team of doctors will be visiting Lovepreet’s family. Psychiatrist Dr Akhilesh Shukla checked her condition and found she is suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.
He has advised the family to ensure no crowd gathers around her and that no one reminds her of what happened. It may worsen her condition,” Kheri chief medical officer Dr Shailendra Bhatnagar told TOI. “We will continue to monitor her.”
At Nanpara in the neighbouring district of Bahraich, Daljeet Kaur, too, is struggling with her son’s loss. “She was alone at home when she found out Gurwinder had died,” Gurwinder’s brother Gursevak told TOI. Gursevak was in Punjab for visa-related procedures and his father Sukhwinder was in Varanasi for work.
A team of doctors was sent by the district administration to check her condition on Thursday night. “She has gone into shock. Gurwinder was the closest to mother. She keeps asking why he was murdered when he never hurt anyone. We don’t have an answer."
