Phagwara: ‘Traces of drugs’ found in Nihang’s blood samples

Ashok Kaura

Phagwara, January 18

After a paternal uncle of the youth, killed by a Nihang in Phagwara gurdwara on Tuesday, identified him, a team of doctors in the Jalandhar Civil Hospital conducted his autopsy on Thursday.

NCM chief questions cops

A communique by National Commission for Minorities Chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura to Chief Secretary Anurag Verma has put the police in a tight spot as he has questioned their failure in handling the case timely despite information being provided three hours prior to his killing

The body of Vishal Kapoor was handed over to his uncle hailing from Kartarpur near here, who performed his last rites. His uncle, who is an NRI, maintains that he was not in touch with his nephew for a long time.

The Kapurthala police also got the dope test of accused Nihang Ramandeep Singh Mangu Math done in the laboratory of the Phagwara Civil Hospital.

Sources revealed that traces of bupernorphine, benzodiazepene and morphine were found in the blood samples of the accused.

On Tuesday morning, the youth was killed by the accused in Gurdwara Chhevin Patshahi in Phagwara on the suspicion of attempt to sacrilege after making his two videos, one before the murder and another after the crime.

A communique by National Commission for Minorities Chairman Iqbal Singh Lalpura to Punjab Chief Secretary Anurag Verma has put the police in a tight spot as he has questioned their failure in handling the case timely despite information three hours prior to his killing. However, SP, Phagwara, Gurpreet Singh, who is investigating the case, denies such allegations. “By the time, the police were informed, the murder had already taken place,” he said.

ADGP (Law and Order) Gurinder Dhillon said, “The investigation is proceeding in the right direction. We will be able to make more revelations and clarify on all sequence of events in a day or so.”