Clearing The Suspicion : Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi Insists No Sacrilege, Kapurthala Killing A Murder

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Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has said that investigations into the killing of a youth at a gurdwara in Kapurthala had not shown any evidence of a desecration. “The youth was lynched. The investigation is pointing towards a murder. We will modify the FIR accordingly,” he said at a press conference.

In Kapurthala (killing of a man for alleged sacrilege), no evidence that sacrilege was done. Matter being probed… FIR to be amended, Channi told ANI

The youth, who remains unidentified but is suspected to have been a migrant, was killed a day after the lynching of another person at the Golden Temple in Amritsar after an alleged act of “sacrilege”. The autopsy report had shown 30 wounds on the body of the youth killed in Kapurthala.

Channi also stated that he had reached out to Union Home Minister Amit Shah for help in the investigation, and the Centre had sent teams. “We need the Centre’s help as Punjab does not have the equipment to check the kind of RDX used in the blast,” the CM said.

We’ve started an investigation against the drug mafia. A case was listed in Mohali court and then a blast happened in Ludhiana court. I think there can be a link between them. This is being investigated, Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi was quoted as saying by ANI