The family of a Lathrop man believed to be jailed in India are turning to the State Department for help in determining why the American citizen was imprisoned and why he hasn’t been able to contact his family back in the United States for help. According to a press release issued last week by the Organization for Minorities of India, Ravinder Jeet Singh Gogi – a Lathrop businessman who owns the Dasmesh Truck Driving School – traveled to the Punjabi region of India to be closer to his ailing father who for nearly two months has been on a hunger strike in protest of the unwarranted detention of other Sikh political activists and journalists by Indian forces. The cause of Bapu Surat Singh Khalsa – Singh’s father – has become a widely circulated story in portions of India after his self-sacrifice became representative for what some saw as a much larger issue.