Nihangs chop off ASI's hand in Punjab's Patiala for asking curfew pass

In a bloody clash in Punjab, a police officer's hand was chopped off and two others got grievous injuries on Sunday when a group of people attacked them in Punjab's Patiala town on being asked about curfew permission, police said. A group of five armed Nihangs, who were travelling in a vehicle, were asked to stop at a vegetable market in Patiala. "They were asked to show the curfew pass. They got angered and in retaliation, they attacked police personnel and government employees deployed there with sharp-edged weapons," a police official said.