Jammu: Prominent Sikh leader and former National Conference MLC, Trilochan Sungh Wazir, was on Thursday morning found dead under mysterious circumstances in a flat in West Delhi’s Basai Darapur area.
Wazir had been president of the J&K State Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and Transport Union also. He had always been a main voice raising the issues of Sikhs and transporters in J&K.
He was 67. His decomposed body was found in the morning, police said. The Delhi Police have registered a case of murder in the matter.
Sources said that the deceased had come to Delhi from Jammu for onward journey to Canada, but he went missing on September 2.
Stiffly opposed to Sikh radical groups and their ideology, Wazir was a close confidante of NC leaders Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah. Expressing his shock at Wazir’s death Omar said he met him only a few days ago.
“Shocked by the terrible news of the sudden death of my colleague Sardar T S Wazir, an ex member of the Legislative Council. It was only a few days ago that we sat together in Jammu not realising it was the last time I would be meeting him. May his soul rest in peace,” he tweeted.
Wazir was once jailed in infamous Chopra murder case for sometime but was later acquitted of all the charges.
