In the ongoing Singhu Lynching matter, a Nihang Sikh claimed there were no regrets on chopping arm of a man and tying him to a barricade. On Friday early morning, the Singhu border reported a violent incident of horrific proportions amid the usually peaceful farmer’s protest. A man was found tied to a barricade with stab marks all over his body and his hand chopped off. The man succumbed to his injuries and passed away by the time the police had arrived.

In the context of the farmer’s protest, the October 15 Singhu Lynching, along with the Republic Day 2021 violence, will be written in history books with black ink.

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1. Background
2. The Facts of the Matter
3. Victim Lynched, Strung Up
4. Who was Lakhbir Singh – The Victim of the Singhu Lynching?
5. “Man Tried to Pick Up Guru Granth Sahib”: Volunteer Gives Account of Violence
6. Nihang Member Surrenders, Claims No Regret on the Lynching

Background

With their blue robes, their knives and swords covered with decorated sheaths, the warrior order of Sikhs, ‘Nihang’, is once again in spotlight. In 2020, some members of a Nihang group chopped off the hand of one of the Punjab Police’s sub-inspectors after they were asked to show their curfew pass amid the COVID-19 lockdown.

On Friday the Nihang group once again took the responsibility of chopping the hand of a man at the Singhu border as he had allegedly disrespected their holy scripture.

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The Facts of the Matter

The farmer’s protest will be completing its first in November. What started off as a peaceful protest against the contentious farm laws, had bursts of violence with people from all the sides getting adversely affected.

Victim Lynched, Strung Up

On the early morning of October 15, a man who was allegedly trying to disrespect the holy scripture of the Nihang Sikhs, was lynched, strung up, and in the process, killed. The responsibility of the lynching was taken by a group of Nihang Sikhs who have been known to be the first line of defence in the farmer’s protest.

Who was Lakhbir Singh – The Victim of the Singhu Lynching?

Social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are filled with visuals of a man tied to a police barricade with his wrist chopped off. There are stab marks on his body and it appears that the man had his leg and ankle broken. The victim has been identified as Lakhbir Singh from Punjab’s Tarn Taran district. The victim was 35-years-old and lived with his sister in Punjab.

After the police received the information on the events that transpired, they took to the site of the incident at about 5 AM. Lakhbir Singh was found tied to a turned-over barricade, lying in the pool of his blood with an arm tied and another chopped off.

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“Man Tried to Pick Up Guru Granth Sahib”: Volunteer Gives Account of Violence

The 35-year-old was taken to the hospital where he was declared dead. Meanwhile, several videos of the perpetrators of the violence have been making the rounds of the internet. In one of the videos a member from the Nihang group can be heard giving an account of the events that transpired. “The unidentified man was trying to pick up the Guru Granth Sahib. A volunteer spotted him. We got hold of him and asked him who had sent him. We broke his leg and chopped off his hand.”

“He has been tied here now. Whoever has sent him can come here now. We will kill him. He has disrespected the holy book. Police can conduct their own investigation,” the Indian Express report quoted him saying.

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Nihang Member Surrenders, Claims No Regret on the Lynching

Meanwhile, the SKM (Samyukt Kisan Morcha), the apex farmer’s body with 43 unions under its umbrella condemned the killings and claimed that the culprits have no association to the SKM. Further, a Nihang Sikh named Sarvajeet Singh took to the media and admitted killing the man. The man was then taken in the custody of police and claimed that he had no regrets on the gruesome killings.