Chandigarh, May 28, 2013: The Punjab Cabinet in its meeting held here today under the Chairmanship of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal cleared the appointment of the daughter of late Sarabjit Singh, Swapandeep Kaur as Naib Tehsildar and Manjit Kaur w/o late Surjit Singh, resident of village Daultpur Neewan, District Moga in Group ‘D’ category at Deputy Commissioner Office, Moga on compassionate grounds.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Chief Minister office said while Swapandeep Kaur’s father Sarabjit Singh had succumbed to a deadly attack in Pakistan jail and subsequently the state government had declared him national martyr whereas in another case all the 11 family members of Manjit Kaur had died in a fatal road accident near Moga on May 6, 2012.
It may be recalled that the Chief Minister had announced to offer government job to Swapandeep Kaur at the Bhog of Sarabjit Singh while he had promised to give a government job to Manjeet Kaur during a Sangat Darshan program.