Farmers Movement Archive

Singhu murder: 3 sent to police remand, 2 SITs conducting probe

ROHTAK: Three Nihangs allegedly involved in the lynching of a farm labourer at a farmers’ protest site near the Singhu border were on Sunday produced before a court in Sonipat, which sent them to six-day police remand though the police had sought 14-day custody. Meanwhile, the Haryana Police also set up two special investigation teams to probe the incident. Narayan Singh was arrested from near Amritsar, while Govind Singh and Bhagwant Singh, from Fatehgarh Sahib, had “surrendered” before the Sonipat police on Saturday in connection with the lynching of Lakhbir Singh, a 35-year-old Tarn Taran man, whose body was found with wounds and a severed left arm on Friday morning. Another accused Sarvajeet Singh, who was nabbed by police from Sonipat’s Kundli on Friday evening, has already been sent to seven-day police custody. In the court, all the three accused admitted to having killed Lakhbir for desecrating the Sikh holy book. Narayan said he had chopped off the victim’s leg while Sarabjeet severed his hand. They submitted that no other person was involved in the murder, but four of them. One of the SITs headed by IPS officer Mayank Gupta, who is assistant superintendent of police, Kharkhoda, Sonipat, will investigate the videos of the incident which were circulating on various social media platforms, while the other led by deputy superintendent of police, Sonipat, Virender Rao will carry out the overall probe into the incident. DSP Rao said all effort would be made to find out who all were involved in the crime besides the arrested four. Meanwhile, addressing media persons at the Singhu-Kundli border, Nihang Raja Raj Singh said that all four persons involved in Lakhbir’s murder had surrendered and that they would oppose any attempt by police to make more arrests in the case. (With inputs from agencies)

The Times of India

2021-10-18

Chandigarh