Singhu border murder case: Haryana Police detains one person

The horrendous killing of a man at the farmers' protest site on the Singhu border has sent chills down the spines of several people with many equating the gruesome incident to a Taliban-style killing.

Haryana Police on Friday detained one person in Sonipat in connection with the Singhu border incident where a corpse was found hanging with hands and legs chopped at the spot where farmers' protest is underway. "The person has been detained from Kundli in Sonipat. An FIR has been lodged," said police. (ANI)

Tension prevailed at the farmers' protest site at Singhu border on Friday following the brutal killing of a man with the protesters seeking to dissociate their agitation from the incident. The protesting farmers huddled in small groups to discuss the repercussions of the killing. They also maintained a distance from the journalists who went to Singhu border to cover the incident. (PTI)

Hitting out at farmer leaders over lynching of a man near a protest site in Kundli, the BJP on Friday said "anarchists" behind these protests need to be exposed as they are doing a great disservice to the nation. The body of the man with a hand chopped off was found tied to a metal barricade in Haryana's Sonipat district on Friday. (PTI)

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Friday condemned the lynching of a man at a farmers' protest venue at Kundli near the Delhi-Haryana border and claimed that there could a conspiracy behind the incident. (PTI)

Haryana Police said on Friday that an FIR was lodged in connection with the murder of a man belonging to Punjab near the farmers' protest site on the Singhu border in Sonepat district. However, no arrest has been made so far in connection with the case. A police spokesperson said that on Friday, the police in Kundli got information that Nihangs had tied a person to a barricade with his hand chopped off near the protest site. (IANS)

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Friday asked the Haryana Police to take strict action against those behind lynching a man at a farmers' protest venue at Kundli near the Delhi-Haryana border. (PTI)

Asserting that there is no place for violence anywhere, the Congress on Friday said it is the government's responsibility to investigate the incident in which the body of a man has been found near a farmers' protest site in Haryana, and that the law should take its course. The body of the man with one of his hands chopped off was found tied to a metal barricade near at Kundli in Haryana's Sonipat district on Friday, police said. (PTI)

The Haryana Police on Friday said that the man who was found dead at the farmers' protest site in Kundli near the Singhu border was not associated with any political party. He has been identified as Lakhbir Singh, a resident of Cheema Khurd village in Tarn Taran district of Punjab.