The development comes after the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions spearheading the anti-farm laws protests, reportedly asked the Nihangs to leave the agitation site following the lynching of a Dalit labourer for allegedly desecrating a Sikh holy book.
A man was assaulted near farmers' protest site allegedly by a Nihang Sikh. His leg was fractured at the Singhu border in Sonipat after the latter refused to give him chicken for free, said Haryana Police on Friday.
According to the police, the victim has been identified as Manoj Paswan, who works at a poultry farm located on the border.
While one SIT was formed to carry out the overall probe into the case, the Gupta-led SIT was constituted to investigate the videos of the incident circulating on social media.
The SIT has been constituted under the chairmanship of ADGP-cum-Director of Bureau of Investigation, Varinder Kumar.
Punjab Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said that the state government will reach the bottom of the case to identify the conspirators behind the killing at the Singhu border.
The body of Lakhbir Singh, who was killed by Nihangs, was found on Friday tied to a barricade at the Singhu border with a hand chopped off and multiple wounds caused by sharp-edged weapons.
Speaking on today's 'rail roko' protest, Rakesh Tikait said that such kind of events will keep taking place till government listens to them and arrest MoS Ajay Mishra, whose son is an accused in Lakhimpur Kheri violence incident.
The police sought remand of the accused on the ground that they have to reconstruct the scene of the crime, recover weapons and clothes of the accused, besides interrogating them in detail about the entire incident.
BJP leader Amit Malviya tweeted, alleging that Lakhbir Singh's body has been insulted. He said that the last rites of Lakhbir Singh were performed hastily under the light of mobile phones.
The man has been identified as Lakhbir Singh, a resident of village Cheema Khurd in Tarn Taran district of Punjab.
The second accused, Narayan Singh, was arrested from Rakh Devidass Pura at Amarkot village in the district.
The Haryana Police on Saturday detained two more persons from the Nihang community — Bhagwant Singh and Govind Singh — in connection with the brutal murder of Dalit Sikh Lakhbir Singh at the farmers' protest site at Singhu.
The BJP also alleged that Sonia Gandhi's opening remarks at the CWC meet did not touch on a host of issues facing the party.
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.
On Friday, a corpse of a man, with hands and legs chopped off, was found hanging on a police barricade at the farmers' protest site near the Singhu border, said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Hansraj.
Earlier on Friday, a corpse of a man, with hands and legs chopped off, was found hanging on a police barricade at the farmers' protest site near the Singhu border, said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Hansraj.
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 is heard accusing him of desecrating a Sikh holy book.
Sarabjit Singh, a member of the Nihang community, has surrendered to the police and claimed responsibility for the barbaric killing of a man at the farmers’ protest in Kundli near the Delhi-Haryana border. He will be produced before a court in Sonipat on Saturday.
Nihang group alleges, the man had desecrated Holy Guru Granth Sahib, he was given punishment.Torture took place near dais, but farmer leaders claimed, it has nothing to do with their protests.
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