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Akali sarpanch beaten to death in Amritsar village, Sukhbir cries Congress vendetta

Amritsar | ByPress Trust of India, Amritsar
Apr 26, 2017 07:28 PM IST

Gurpinder Singh Laali engaged in a verbal duel with the suspects last evening which later turned into a scuffle. Laali fainted during the clash and was rushed to a hospital where he died.

In a suspected case of political murder, an Akali sarpanch has been beaten to death allegedly by a group of Congress workers in Cheath Kalan village of Attari assembly constituency in Amritsar district, police said on Wednesday.

A family member of murder victim Gurpinder Singh holding his photo at Cheath Kalan village in Amritsar district on Wednesday.(HT Photo)
A family member of murder victim Gurpinder Singh holding his photo at Cheath Kalan village in Amritsar district on Wednesday.(HT Photo)

Victim Gurpinder Singh
Victim Gurpinder Singh

An FIR has been registered against four persons, Chattiwind SHO, Amarjit Singh said. According to police, the victim, Gurpinder Singh Laali engaged in a verbal duel with the suspects last evening which later turned into a scuffle. Laali fainted during the clash and was rushed to a hospital where he died, Singh said. Efforts are on to trace the suspects, he said.

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Meanwhile, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal condemned the killing of the Akali sarpanch. He said in a statement issued in Chandigarh that the death of Laali was the result of the vendetta unleashed by the Congress-led state government on Akali workers.

“If the local police had swung into action, a young life could have been saved,” he said.

He added that the party would help the victims of such vendetta by taking up their cases in court.

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