They also threatened to launch massive protests and come out on the streets if the police failed to meet their demands.

On the other hand, the whole matter seems to have taken a political turn as a number of Congress party leaders including State General Secretary Sheelam Sohi, senior leader Dipinder Singh Dhillon, State Congress secretaries Rakesh Sharma and Amritpal Singh, Derabassi Congress block president Surinder Singh and other leaders visited the Bhankerpur village to meet the deceased’s family and agitated villagers.

According to them, the police should have registered a case against the whole mob and not any individual as the torching incident was a collective act to express their resentment against the Administration for not responding to their repeated requests of constructing an underpass in Bhankerpur or providing any alternate route for the villagers to cross the busy NH-22.