New Delhi: Family members and relatives of Lakhbir Singh, a daily wage laborer who was killed at Delhi’s Singhu border, claimed that he was addicted to drugs and lured by the place where farmers have been protesting against three new agricultural laws since November last year.
The family members of the 35-year-old daily wage laborer demanded justice and punishment to the guilty at the earliest.
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“We do not know how he reached the Singhu border and who took him there. I got a call from my daughter in the morning and she told me that Lakhbir Singhu was found dead at the border,” ANI quoted Lakhbir’s father-in-law Baldev Singh as saying on Friday.
“He is survived by three daughters and a wife in his family. How will they live without him now? We demand justice for them and the guilty should be punished at the earliest.”
Meanwhile, Lakhbir’s sister Raj Kaur expressed grief over his murder and said that her innocent brother has no criminal history.
“He took Rs 50 from me and said that he would return after doing some work in a week. But he did not return and was thus found dead. We do not know why he was killed and hanged in such a situation and who is responsible for it,” she said.
The body of Lakhbir, a resident of village Cheema Khurd in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district, was found on Friday morning with multiple wounds and severed left arm at the Singhu border.
The Nihangs, a Sikh order recognized by blue robes and swords, have been convicted of the gruesome murder.
A video increasingly viral on social media shows the men wearing blue turbans and circling the daily wage worker’s body while he was alive with his severed hand held near his head.
The men can be heard accusing Lakhbir of desecrating the Guru Granth Sahib.
Police have registered an FIR in this matter and investigated the matter.
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