Neeraj BaliChandigarh, July 12 -- Minister of State for Railways and Food Processing Industries Ravneet Singh Bittu on Sunday challenged the producers and director of the Punjabi film Satluj to publicly substantiate the film's claim that around 25,000 people went missing or were illegally cremated during Punjab's militancy years, saying the figure must be backed by official records, judicial findings and authenticated evidence rather than presented as an established historical fact.
Issuing what he described as an open challenge, Bittu said the filmmakers should place "the complete documentary evidence, official records, judicial findings and authenticated data" before the people of Punjab if they wished to stand by the figure portrayed in...