New Delhi: The family members and relatives of daily wage labourer Lakhbir Singh, who was killed at Delhi’s Singhu border, claimed he was an addict and lured to the site where the farmers are protesting against the three new farm laws since November last year.
The 35-year-old daily wage labourer’s family members demanded justice at the earliest and punishment for the guilty.
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“We do not know how he reached the Singhu border and who took him there. I received a call from my daughter in the morning and she told me that Lakhbir was found dead at the Singhu border,” ANI quoted Lakhbir’s father-in-law Baldev Singh as saying on Friday.
“He has three daughters and a wife in his family. How will they survive now without him? We demand justice for him and the guilty should be punished soon,” he added.
Meanwhile, Lakhbir’s sister Raj Kaur expressed shock over his killing and said that her innocent brother had no criminal history.
“He took Rs 50 from me and said that he will return in a week after doing some work. But he did not return and was found dead in this manner. We do not know why he was killed and hanged in such a situation and who is responsible for it,” she said.
The body of Lakhbir, a resident of village Cheema Khurd in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, was found with multiple wounds and severed left hand at the Singhu border on Friday morning.
Nihangs, a Sikh order identified by their blue robes and swords, have been blamed for the gruesome killing.
A video that started doing the rounds on social media showed men in blue turbans and robes surrounding the daily wage labourer’s body while he was still alive with his severed hand close to his head.
The men can be heard accusing Lakhbir of desecrating the Guru Granth Sahib.
The police have registered an FIR in this case and investigating the matter.