Chandigarh, The autopsy of slain anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota was conducted at the PGIMER here on Saturday and the body was handed over to the family.
The body will be taken from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research here around 5 am on Sunday to his native place in Mansa, he said. Nihang Raja Raj Singh, a religious leader, said that Jhota’s family has decided to hold the cremation around 12 noon on Sunday.
During Wednesday’s meeting with government representatives, the Joint Action Committee formed to seek justice for Jhota had sought the release of two of its arrested members, along with other demands. Jhota’s body was brought to PGIMER Chandigarh from Mansa town in the early hours of Friday, after his family ended their 22-day agitation and agreed to a post-mortem following a meeting with Punjab government representatives on Wednesday. The arrested JAC members, including Lakhvir Singh alias Lakha Sidhana, were released from the Nabha district jail on Thursday evening. After a three-week deadlock, a breakthrough came on Wednesday following a five-hour meeting between the protesters and government representatives, who included Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan and Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian.
