 On 6 September 1995, while washing his car in front of his house, Khalra was allegedly abducted by personnel of Punjab Police and taken to Jhabal Police Station.Although witnesses gave statements implicating the police and have named former police chief Kanwar Pal Singh Gill as a conspirator, police have denied ever arresting or detaining him and have claimed to have no knowledge of his whereabouts.In 1996, the Central Bureau of Investigation found evidence that he was held at a police station in Tarn Taran and recommended the prosecution of nine Punjab police officials for murder and kidnapping.