The Haryana Police has set up two special investigation teams (SITs) to probe the lynching of a dalit labourer at a farmers' protest site near Singhu border. Four persons have been arrested so far in connection with the incident that took place on Friday.
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, reported PTI.
Meanwhile, a Sonipat court on Sunday remanded three of the four accused to six days in police remand. Narain Singh, a member of the Sikh order of Nihang, was arrested from Amritsar while the other two Nihangs, Govindpreet Singh and Bhagwant Singh "surrendered" before the Sonipat Police on Saturday.
Sarabjit Singh, the first person to be arrested in the case, has already been remanded to seven days in police custody.
The police sought remand of the accused on the ground that they have to reconstruct the scene of the crime, recover clothes which the accused wore at the time of incident, besides interrogating them in depth about the entire incident. According to reports, the Haryana Police will take the four persons to Punjab for identification of the other accused.
The body of Lakhbir Singh was found on Friday tied to a barricade at the Singhu border, where the anti-farm law protesters have been camping, with a hand chopped off and multiple wounds caused by sharp-edged weapons.
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.
However, the victim's family has questioned the attackers' claim that he committed sacrilege and demanded a high-level probe.
With inputs from PTI
