"No Regrets": 'Nihang' Who Claimed Brutal Killing At Farmers' Protest

[Premi5]

"No Regrets": 'Nihang' Who Claimed Brutal Killing At Farmers' Protest

The body of Lakhbir Singh, 35 years old and from Punjab's Tarn Taran district, was discovered early yesterday morning with the left hand and right foot cut off

 

All IndiaReported by Mohammad Ghazali, Edited by Chandrashekar SrinivasanUpdated: October 16, 2021 2:30 pm IST

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/lakhbir-singh-murder-no-regrets-nihang-who-claimed-brutal-killing-at-farmers-protest-site-2577427

 

 

New Delhi: 

Saravjit Singh - a Sikh 'warrior' or Nihang who has claimed responsibility for the gruesome murder of a Dalit labourer at a farmers protest site in Haryana's Singhu yesterday - has claimed "no regrets".

Singh was produced at a local court today following his surrender yesterday and sent to seven days' police custody; the authorities had argued for 14 days' saying Sarvjit had given them information on four other suspects and that they had to recover the murder weapons.

An earlier video - from before his surrender - of him tightly flanked by other Nihangs - at least two of whom still carried swords - and surrounded by reporters has emerged, in which one reporter asks: "Do you feel repentance?"

To this Singh looks disinterested, waves the question away and shakes his head, and replies "No".

The body of Lakhbir Singh, 35 years old and from Punjab's Tarn Taran district, was discovered early yesterday morning. It was found tied to a police barricade with the left hand and right foot cut off.

As news of the brutal and sickening murder spread, at least three videos were circulated, showing a large group of Nihangs, standing around his body as lay bleeding and in pain.

One video shows the group standing over him after his left hand was cut off. Another showed them filming his dying moments and a third showed him strung up by his feet like a slab of meat.

NDTV has not been able to independently verify any of these videos.

Also, reports circulating since yesterday morning claim that Lakhbir Singh was attacked for allegedly desecrating the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh's holy book.

Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav, who is part of the group leading the farmers' protests, had indicated an argument broke out at the protest site Thursday night over a question of desecration.

The Nihangs allegedly beat Lakhbir to death, cut off his limbs and tied him to the police barricade.

However, voices from Lakhbir's home village of Cheema Kurd have a different story to tell.

"He could not have done this; he was not that kind of a person. He was made to do this," Masa Singh said. Another, who requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal, stressed: "Lakhbir can't be involved in desecration", and a third, retired soldier Harbhajan Singh, said "... he must have been lured there."

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, which is spearheading farmers' protests against the government's new laws, and members of which group are among the thousands camped out at Singhu, has unequivocally distanced itself from the murder and any connection with the Nihangs.

"... want to make it clear - the Nihang group (and) the deceased - have no relation with the Kisan Morcha," SKM said yesterday, adding that it abhorred sacrilege but nobody could take the law into their hands. The guilty must be punished, the farmers body said, and offered the police its support.

Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar held a high-level meeting at his residence in Chandigarh to discuss the murder; Home Minister Anil Vij and the state's police chief were present.

[MisterrSingh]

I'm confused. Is this a farmer protest issue or a Guru Sahib desecration problem?

[dharamyudh]

2 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

I'm confused. Is this a farmer protest issue or a Guru Sahib desecration problem?

No surprise there. Indian media is also painting this out to be a Dalit hate crime. 

[GurjantGnostic]

14 minutes ago, dharamyudh said:

No surprise there. Indian media is also painting this out to be a Dalit hate crime. 

We can pretty much know with certainty which two parts of that man were used to strike Maharaja. 

Let's see...left hand...and uh...right foot. Naughty naughty. 

And if this wasn't like Lahkbir, who turned him into a crash test dummy?

[dharamyudh]

Just now, GurjantGnostic said:

We can pretty much know with certainty which two parts of that man were used to strike Maharaja. 

100 percent. I was reading about the guy and he was a drug addict whose wife and kids left him years ago.  We all know addicts do the dumbest stuff to get their next fix. However, what's interesting is that his sister stated that he used to talk on the phone with "higher ups." There is an outfit funding these events. 

[GurjantGnostic]

43 minutes ago, dharamyudh said:

100 percent. I was reading about the guy and he was a drug addict whose wife and kids left him years ago.  We all know addicts do the dumbest stuff to get their next fix. However, what's interesting is that his sister stated that he used to talk on the phone with "higher ups." There is an outfit funding these events. 

Interesting. Sant Jairnail Singh Bhinderwale Shaheed Ji got people off afeem and they use it as a way to stoke violence and get some junkie wrecked. 

[Jai Tegang!]

The BJP and indian media are spinning this to be a dalit hate crime....completely ridiculous. The fauja are by and large made up of Mazabi Singhs (Dalits). The fauja don't live in fear of the corrupt law, they answer to a higher authority. They own very little and don't have the same economic considerations when taking these kinds of actions. Another thing, that lakbir mentioned there were a total of 20 of them hired to instigate and cause beadbi, im sure the remaining 19 won't want to carry through now. This beadbi trend is out of control simply beacause we have a huge tolerance level. Why this beadbi doesn't happen at hindu mandirs or at mosques, i wonder? Each time a culprit is caught, he/she happens to have "mental illness". I wonder why. I bet the beadbi inccidents are about to come down now.

 

[GurjantGnostic]

5 minutes ago, Jai Tegang! said:

Another thing, that lakbir mentioned there were a total of 20 of them hired to instigate and cause beadbi, im sure the remaining 19 won't want to carry through now.

Amen to that bro. I bet 19 people just noped right out of that put up job. 

[Jai Tegang!]

1 minute ago, GurjantGnostic said:

Amen to that bro. I bet 19 people just noped right out of that put up job. 

No kidding bro. Any future potential jobers are going to instictly rub their wrists in the future.

[MisterrSingh]

The last thing that needs to happen in India today is for a Dalit or anyone else of similar status to be killed at the hands of a Sikh. If a vulnerable, desperate person is being paid off by higher powers to instigate bother and strife in order to besmirch Sikhs, the victim is always going to be the poor sod roped into the scheme as a patsy.

IF this is a devious plan to smear Sikhs, then the people who organised it have got exactly what they wanted. On the other hand - and I say this with some reservation - the Singhs did what they had to do, and in that junglee country what they did was to send a clear message out to anyone else thinking of doing a similar act. Unfortunately, most of the people of that country understand one particular type of language, and sadly it's the one these Singhs were compelled to speak.