New Delhi: Sonipat court on Sunday sent the three accused in the Singhu Border killing case, wherein the mutilated body of a man was found hanging at the site of farmers’ protest, to six-day police custody.
The accused persons were identified as Narayan Singh, Bhagwant Singh, and Govind Preet Singh.
The police had sought 14-day custody of the accused, arguing in the court that they need to identify other co-accused in the case who the three know only by their faces and also recover some blood-stained clothes from the time of the crime, news agency ANI reported.
The accused have to be taken to other places in connection with other arrests in the case, they added.
As per news agency PTI, the police also seek to reconstruct the scene of the crime besides interrogating the accused in depth about the entire incident.
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 Singh will carry out the overall probe into the incident, it reported.
This comes after Narayan Singh, a Nihang Sikh who is allegedly involved in killing farm labourer Lakhbir Singh at the Singhu border, was arrested by the Punjab police on Saturday.
About The Case
A man was lynched, his hand chopped off and the body bearing over 10 wounds caused by sharp-edged weapons tied to a barricade at a farmers’ protest site at Kundli near the Delhi-Haryana border, a gruesome incident being blamed on a group of Nihangs.
Hours after the crime, a man wearing the blue robes of the Sikhs’ Nihang order appeared before the media, claiming that he had “punished” the victim for “desecrating” a Sikh holy book.
While police said that the man had been arrested and was being questioned, other Nihangs claimed he had “surrendered” to the police, PTI reported.
“Sarabjit Singh, the son of Kashmir Singh, a resident of Vitwha in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district has been arrested,” a police official had said.
He informed that during preliminary questioning, Sarabjit had claimed he could not tolerate “desecration of the holy book”.
The victim’s family had questioned the attackers’ claim that he committed sacrilege and demanded a high-level probe.
The mortal remains of Lakhbir Singh were cremated at his native village in Punjab’s Tarn Taran amid tight security in the presence of his family members on Saturday evening.
(With Agency Inputs)