Gurdaspur (Punjab): Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the family members of Vikramjit Singh in Batala, Gurdaspur, in Punjab, today. Vikramjit Singh was allegedly killed by drug traffickers recently. The Home Minister is on a day-long visit to Punjab to meet the family members of those who paid with their lives in Mansa, Gurdaspur and Sangrur recently for raising their voices against drug menace in the state.
Mr Amit Shah will also meet the family members of Gulzar Singh in Sangrur, who committed suicide allegedly when his pleas were not heard by the state government against the sale of drugs, which made his son a drug addict.
He will also visit Mansa, where an anti-drug activist, Parvinder Singh Jhota, was recently shot dead by a chemist for objecting to selling synthetic drugs. The Home Minister will meet his bereaved family members. The body of the activist has not been cremated by his family even after a week of his murder. Jhota’s father, Bhim Singh, an ex-serviceman, while welcoming the visit, has demanded a CBI probe in the case.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has declared to hand over the murder case of Parvinder Singh to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Later, Sh. Shah will participate in Dussehra ceremony at Ludhiana, where the burning of Ravana’s effigy has symbolically been themed as ‘Ravan of Chitta.’
[AIR news]