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- The victim suffered around 30 injuries, most of which are likely to be sharp stabs with swords
- Man was cremated as no one came forward to claim the body
- The murder came a day after a similar incident happened at the Golden Temple, where another person was murdered.
The postmortem report revealed that the man, who was killed for an alleged sabotage attempt at the gurdwara, had around 30 injuries on his body, most of which were likely to be cut with sharp swords.
This was confirmed by senior medical officer Narinder Singh, who told reporters that a five-member board of doctors from the local civil hospital conducted the autopsy. Meanwhile, the man was cremated as no one came forward to claim the body. The police have not yet registered a murder case.
Earlier, he had said that there was no trace of any sacrilege in the gurdwara of Nizampur village on the Kapurthala-Subhanapur road.
The murder took place on Sunday, a day after a similar incident at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, where another man was lynched for allegedly trying to desecrate.
The report said that the unidentified man had deep wounds on his neck, head, chest and right hip of the body and may have become breathless after a deep cut on the neck.
The board also took the victim’s viscera for chemical test to ascertain whether he had consumed any intoxicant. Doctors took samples of his hair, teeth and blood for his DNA test.
The police took the body in their vehicle to the crematorium for the last rites and handed it over to the local municipal authorities for the last rites.
City Deputy Superintendent of Police Surinder Singh, who was present at the hospital, told media persons that the police tried their best to identify him, but even 72 hours after the lynching incident, no one came forward to collect the body.
On the question of registering a murder case, he said that the police is probing the incident and will register a case based on the findings.
He said that no case of murder has been registered so far.
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However, a case has been registered under section 295A (deliberate and malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) on the complaint of the gurudwara manager. The police had detained Gurdwara manager Amarjeet Singh for questioning, who was released on Sunday night.
Singh claimed that he had seen the man trying to disrespect the “Nishan Sahib” (religious flag).
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