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Satluj is set in the period following the assassination of then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, when over 2,000 people were killed and cremated unlawfully in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district. Jaswant Singh Khalra, the director of a bank in Amritsar, uncovered the evidence of the horrific murders. In 1995, he was abducted and killed after his investigation had sparked worldwide protests, and the Supreme Court of India and the National Human Rights Commission had also backed the findings.