Ex-serviceman Bhim Singh, father of slain anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota, on Wednesday made an emotional appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah to intervene and ensure justice.
The complainant also alleged the murder was premeditated, in which unnamed politicians, police personnel, and officials of the drug department are involved.
In his complaint with police, Singh said his only son was a boxer and cricketer who had been fighting against the drug menace after being distressed by deaths caused by substance abuse in Punjab. Singh was on his way to meet a retired subedar at the Mansa district court when he heard a gunshot, according to the FIR. Following this, someone in the crowd shouted that Jhota had been shot, he said.
The aggrieved family, which is demanding an independent probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has refused to cremate the body, which is kept in the Mansa civil hospital’s mortuary. “I have no faith in the investigation being conducted by the Punjab Police. We will not perform Jhota’s last rites.
The cremation would be performed after the federal agency starts investigating the case or it is handed over to a sitting judge,” Singh said.
