Victim's family demands high-level probe in the Singhu border lynching
The Hindu
The body of Lakhbir Singh was found tied to an overturned police barricade at the Singhu Border site where farmers are protesting against the three central farm laws.
The family of Lakhbir Singh, a Dalit farm labourer brutally killed by members of a Sikh sect for alleged sacrilege, said on Saturday that he was a god-fearing man who would never think of desecrating a holy book and demanded a high-level probe to bring out the truth.
His wife Jaspreet Kaur and three daughters aged 12, 11 and eight years live in a small temporary house made of mud and bricks in village Cheema Kalan, around 50 km away from the holy city of Amritsar. His son passed away two years ago.
The family was barely managing two square meals a day when Lakhbir was alive and would work in the village fields or in the grain market of Tarn Taran district for his livelihood.