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Sonipat: A court here on Saturday sent Sarabjit Singh, arrested in connection with the lynching of a man at the site of a farmers’ sit-in along the Singhu border, to police custody for seven days, while the accused pleaded guilty to the involvement of some more people. pointed to. Strike.
The body of Lakhbir Singh, a laborer from Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, was found on Friday tied to a barricade at the Delhi-Haryana border where anti-farmer law protesters had camped, with one hand amputated and several with sharp wounds. Sharp Weapons, a gruesome incident that was blamed on a group of Nihangs.
Seeking Sarabjit’s custody, the police told the court that they have to make some recovery from the arrested accused, a senior police officer of Sonipat police said.
The official said Sarabjit has named four more people during his interrogation, indicating his involvement in the incident.
We produced Sarabjit in the court. Sonipat Deputy Superintendent of Police Virendra Singh told over phone that the court has sent the accused to seven days’ police custody.
The accused have pointed to the involvement of four more people in the case and have named them…we are investigating further in this regard. He said that we have to recover something from the arrested accused including the weapon used in the crime and the clothes he was wearing.
The total number of accused in the crime may be more than five, the DSP said, adding that further investigation is on.
Hours after the horrific crime on Friday, a man dressed in blue of the Nihang order of the Sikhs appeared before the media, claiming he had “punished” the victim for “desecrating” the Sikh holy book.
Other Nihangs had claimed that he had “surrendered” to the police, while the police later said that Sarabjit Singh, a resident of Gurdaspur district, had been arrested in the case.
Earlier on Friday, in a video clip that surfaced on social media, some Nihangs were seen standing near the injured man’s head with his severed left hand. The group was heard accusing them of insulting a Sikh holy book.
In the video, the Nihang group is asking the badly injured man, who is pleading with them in Punjabi, where did he come from and who had sent him. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday held a meeting with Home Minister Anil Vij and senior police officials and directed strict action against those found guilty.
Back in their Tarn Taran village, Singh’s family was in shock and said that he could never desecrate a holy book.
In connection with the incident of lynching, a case of murder has been registered at Kundli police station in Sonipat.
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