Santokh Singh Bumrah — India cricketer Jasprit Bumrah's grandfather — may have committed suicide, say the police.
Santokh's lifeless body was fished out from Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad on Sunday, December 10 — two days after he reportedly went missing. His daughter Rajinder Kaur had filed a complaint in this regard with Vastrapur police station in Ahmedabad.
Denied a meeting
Santokh had reportedly travelled from Uttarakhand to meet the Indian fast bowler in Ahmedabad ahead of the latter's birthday (December 5), after seeing his exploits on TV.
His daughter Rajinder Kaur subsequently lodged a 'missing person' complaint.
The Gujarat pace sensation's mother Daljit Kaur had not allowed her 84-year-old father-in-law to meet his grandson, the police told International Business Times, India. She was reportedly angry because he had not inquired after her for 17 years — since the death of Bumrah's father Jasbir Singh.
Prima facie a case of suicide?
Local police told IBTimes India that they are prima facie treating this as a case of suicide because a dejected Santokh had called up another of his daughter — a resident of Amritsar in Punjab — and told her he was going to join her mother. Santokh was a widower.
Rajinder was subsequently informed of this conversation by her sister, and in turn, told the cops about it.
The police also told IBTimes India that while no suicide note was found on Santokh — they retrieved his voter ID card and mobile phone, among other things from his person — he had switched off his mobile phone.
Santokh was once a successful businessman but was reportedly forced to sell off his business after the death of Bumrah's father. He then settled down in the Kiccha village in Uttarakhand, where he used to drive an autorickshaw.
