Chandigarh, The district authorities in Punjab’s Mansa on Wednesday demolished a portion of the house belonging to Ashwani Kumar, the medical store owner who fatally shot anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh alias Jhota in broad daylight on Tuesday, while a mob vandalised and set ablaze his shop, officials said.
Dramatic scenes unfolded in the area as an excavator razed the front portion of Kumar’s residence in Veer Nagar, even as an angry mob, including some ‘Nihangs’, ripped apart his store amid heavy police presence, with a large crowd filming and cheering the act. People could be seen climbing the boundary walls of the nearby houses to catch a glimpse of the demolition, as the mob went berserk amid heavy police deployment.
The accused has been taken into custody from Salasar in Rajasthan, police said. Police on Tuesday arrested an associate of Kumar who helped him escape.
The shooting left the town simmering with tension as the activist’s supporters vandalised the medical shop, while Jhota’s family refused to cremate his body as a mark of protest.
