Singhu border killing plot to defame farm agitation: Lawyers’ body

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 21

Asserting that the Singhu border killing was a manifestation of anger over failed injustice in past sacrilege incidents, the Lawyers for Human Rights International (LFHRI) today demanded a thorough probe into what seemed to be a conspiracy to derail the farmers’ agitation through such incidents.

A five-member inquiry team of LFHRI, which visited the crime site earlier, released its report on the killing here today. Team member Navkiran Singh said their probe revealed there was a larger conspiracy to derail and defame the farmers’ agitation at Singhu border where Nihangs were providing protective cover to protesters. “We recommend Punjab to get the conspiracy theory investigated,” he said.

Navkiran added people as well as Nihangs feel a large section of the Sikhs were fed up with sacrilege incidents since 2015 and the failure of the police and the lengthy judicial processes.

Narrating the sequence of events of the killing on the basis of their finding, he said it was the Nihang dera of Baba Balwinder Singh — Jathedar of Panth Akali Nirvair Khalsa Udna Dal, where the incident of sacrilege had taken place. It is one of the eight deras of the Nihnags at the site.