Punjab Police on Saturday made the second arrest in connection with the the lynching of a man at the farmers' protest site at Singhu border. Narayan Singh was arrested in Amritsar district, a day after Saravjit Singh surrendered to Haryana Police and claimed responsibility for the brutal killing.
The body of Lakhbir Singh, a labourer from Punjab's Tarn Taran district, was found on Friday tied to a barricade at the Delhi-Haryana border where the anti-farm law protesters gave been camping, with a hand chopped off and multiple wounds caused by sharp-edged weapons, a gruesome incident that was blamed on a group of Nihangs.
Earlier on Friday, in a video clip that surfaced on social media, some Nihangs were seen standing around the injured man with his severed left hand close to his head. The group was heard accusing him of desecrating a Sikh holy book.
The video showed the Nihang group asking the badly injured man, who is pleading with them in Punjabi, where he had come from and who sent him.
