Even as Jasprit Bumrah is playing for India against Sri Lanka in the ongoing first ODI of a three-match series in Dharamsala, the fast bowler's grandfather, Santokh Singh Bumrah, was found dead in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati river on Sunday, December 10.
Santokh's body was retrieved from the river by Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services (AFES), according to the Times of India after the 84-year-old went missing on Friday, December 8.
Santokh had left home, dejected after he was denied permission by Bumrah's mother, Daljit Kaur, to meet his grandson on the Gujarat cricketer's birthday (December 5).
The octogenarian's daughter Rajinder Kaur Bumrah had filed a complaint at the Vastrapur police station, after which a missing person's report was filed.
"When we went to meet Jasprit's mother Daljit Kaur at a city school where she is a teacher, she refused to allow my father any contact with Jasprit," Ranjinder had told Ahmedabad Mirror.
She added: "She [Bumrah's mother] even refused to share her son's phone number so that father could talk to him. My father was grief-stricken by this. He left home on Friday afternoon and never returned."
Bumrah's mother had refused to comment
Notably, Santokh, who used to drive autorickshaw in Uttarakhand, had reached Ahmedabad to meet Bumrah. He had reportedly seen Bumrah on television and decided to meet the Indian cricket star.
After being denied the opportunity to meet his grandson, Santokh had called his son Balvinder Singh, who resides in Uttarakhand and had told him he was leaving to meet his deceased wife, according to the complaint.
Santokh was once a successful businessman, but he sold off his assets and settled in Uttarakhand after the death of Bumrah's father. The pacer's mother Daljit had refused to comment on the matter when contacted by the newspaper.
