The second arrest was made on Saturday in connection with One person killed at farmer’s dharna site on Singhu border, with the “surrender” of Narayan Singh in Amritsar, Punjab.
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Narayan, a member of the Nihang Sikh community of Amarkot village, was arrested by the Amritsar Rural Police.
News agencies reported late in the evening that two more people associated with the Nihang order of Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab have surrendered to the Sonepat police in Kundli in connection with the murder.
Lakhbir Singh, a resident of Tarn Taran in Punjab, was found dead in Haryana’s Sonipat on Friday. The body was tied to police barricades and the wrist and leg were amputated. He was “punished” for allegedly insulting the holy Sikh scripture.
The main accused Sarabjit, a Nihang Sikh, who was arrested by the Haryana Police hours after the murder, was sent to police custody for seven days by the District and Sessions Court in Sonipat on Saturday.
Soon after his arrest, Narayan claimed that he had informed the Amritsar Senior Superintendent of Police over phone that he wanted to surrender.
He said he had sought permission to visit the Akal Takht, but the police took him into custody near Jandiala town, about 25 km from Amritsar.
Speaking to reporters before his arrest, Narayan said Lakhbir was “punished” for his alleged sacrilege. Members of several Sikh organizations reportedly garlanded him with notes when he offered prayers at a gurdwara.
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The United Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmers’ organizations opposing the three agricultural laws, has demanded an inquiry into “allegations of conspiracy to sabotage the movement through promoting profanity and unrest by hurting religious sentiments”.
“From the media reports from the victim’s village and family, it appears that he was receiving mysterious calls, which he used to take secretly. The victim, Lakhbir Singh, is believed to have told his sister that ‘her reach has now increased and gone too far’. After a wedding in the village, he is believed to have gone with someone in the attire of a Nihang Sikh and has since landed with a Nihang group in the Singhu border. All this information points to some kind of deeper conspiracy, as the SKM has been pointing out.
Lakhbir’s autopsy report has revealed 37 wounds, including six wounds caused by sharp and pointed weapons.
“The rest are mutilations and abrasions caused by blunt weapons. The report attributed the death to hemorrhagic shock,” said Virender Singh, deputy superintendent of police, law and order, Sonepat.
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Later in the afternoon, Lakhbir Singh was cremated at his native village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran amid tight security in the presence of his family members. There was no Sikh priest present to perform the Ardas (Sikh funeral prayer) and no one from his village Cheema Kalan attended the last rites.
“Sarabjit has named four people, including Narayan Singh, for their involvement in the murder. He said there were more people involved and he could identify them,” said Mr. Singh. Hindu.
Presenting Sarabjit in the court of First Class Judicial Magistrate Kimmy Singla, Haryana Police sought 14-day remand for identification of co-accused in the case and recovery of murder weapons and blood-stained clothes.
“The police told the court that the accused had to be taken to Chamkaur Sahib and Gurdaspur in Punjab for identification and arrest of the co-accused. They also argued that the murder weapon from Kundli and the blood-stained clothes of the accused should be confiscated,” said Sarabjit’s lawyer Monark Bhardwaj.
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Mr. Bhardwaj said that the court directed the police to make daily dairy entry at the local police station and conduct daily medical examination whenever he is taken for investigation during his custody. Mr. Bhardwaj said the court allowed the accused to meet his lawyer for an hour daily.
(with inputs from Vikas Vasudev)
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