chandigarh in your old age you want to be able to draw happiness from looking at what you have achieved in your life late hockey legend balbir singh sr had once said about his missing memorabiliain the last 10 years his family members left no stones unturned to regain his memorabilia which he had donated way back in 1985 to the sports authority of indiaone of indias greatest hockey players who won three olympic gold medals in a stellar career singh died in may 2020 after battling multiple health issueshis missing memorabilia included an olympic blazer medals and rare pictures it was donated to the sai for a proposed museum which never saw the light of daywhen coaxed he would compare the pain of their loss to the passing of a close family member singhs maternal grandson kabir told pti here on sunday recalling how the family has been moving from pillar to post for the last 10 yearsthe family says they came to know that the items were missing when the international olympic committees olympic museum wanted the melbourne games blazer to be a part of the official 2012 london olympics exhibition there he was honoured as one of 16 olympic icons across all disciplines in 116 years of the modern olympicsthat is when we contacted sai to get that blazer as nanaji balbir sr had nothing with him in london apart from olympic medals but sai officials said that they didnt know about the whereabouts of the treasure kabir saidthese articles were part of our national sporting heritage he addeda group of lawyers from the punjab and haryana high court filed many rtis in the sai office in new delhi and the national institute of sports nis patiala which revealed that the articles were indeed received by these authorities from singhwe also have the original newspaper clipping with picture of the handover in 1985 if we didnt then they would have just continued denying that national treasure of our countrys sporting history were ever given he saidkabir said after the hockey great died assurances were given by different authorities that the matter would be thoroughly investigatedfinally an fir was registered three years ago in civil lines police station patiala by national institute of sportsit was assigned to an assistant subinspector of police for investigation said kabir adding no real progress has taken placein september 2021 we approached the then dig of patiala police range gurpreet singh toor with the request that a special investigation team of punjab police be set up to which the case could be transferredthe specific request for an sit was because by law an sit is also empowered to conduct investigations outside of state borders we are thankful to him that the request for sit was approved and a threemember sit headed by the then sp investigations patiala dr mehtab singh ips was constituted said kabirhowever that was the last piece of good news the sit constituted in september 2021 has till date