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.
The farmers protest site on Singhu border on the periphery of the national capital, which was till now labelled as a pious spot for the farmers movement, was on Friday soaked with the blood of a man, who was mercilessly killed for allegedly desecrating a Sikh religious scripture.