Ex-Rupnagar Rotary Club chief dies after scuffle in Canada
: Former Rupnagar Rotary Club president Amarjit Singh Bhatnagar (73) died after a scuffle with two local teenagers at Brampton, a suburb of Toronto, in Canada.
A retired executive engineer of the public works department (PWD), Bhatnagar had gone to Canada on April 19 and was to return to India after six months, his younger son Arvinder Singh said.
Arvinder said his father and elder brother Jaspinder Singh used to go for a night walk regularly. But on June 12 night, his father went out before his brother, he said.
He said when Jaspinder went out to join his father, two black youths aged around 15 tried to snatch his mobile phone on his way but he resisted. In the meantime, his father also came there.
Arvinder said after scuffling with his brother, the teenagers also pushed his father, who fell down with his head hitting the ground, as a result of which he fell unconscious.
He was taken to a local hospital, where he died on Thursday. The Canadian police have arrested one of the accused and are looking for his accomplices.
The Rupnagar Rotary Club in
ASSAULTED BY TWO TEENS WHO SOUGHT TO SNATCH MOBILE FROM HIS SON; ONE OF THE ACCUSED ARRESTED
a meeting on Friday has mourned Bhatnagar’s death.
In a recent incident, a Sikh man was attacked by two white men in Ottawa on March 23. Apart from robbing him and tearing the turban off his head, the two men threatened him with a knife. They also hurled racial slurs at him, Canadian media had reported. He was asked specifically about his ethnicity and then there were some slurs used against him.