A second Nihang - a member of a 'warrior' Sikh order - has been arrested in connection with the gruesome murder of Lakhbir Singh, a Dalit labourer, at a farmers protest site in Haryana's Singhu yesterday.
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 macabre crime, a man wearing the blue robes of the Sikhs’ Nihang order, appeared before the media, claiming that
Lakhbir Singh’s lynching is not the first instance of attack by members of the Nihang community at Singhu border. A 24-year-old man claimed a Nihang assaulted him with a sword at the farmers’ protest site in April.
The Nihang sect follower who surrendered on Friday, claiming responsibility for the brutal killing, was sent on seven-day police remand by Sonepat court on Saturday.