Overview
- Parminder Tiwari, the Machhiwara Congress block president, was attacked with an axe on Sunday evening outside rental quarters near Takhran village and was declared dead at a private hospital.
- Ludhiana police identified Vijay Kumar as the main accused, arrested his parents, a brother and a relative for harbouring him, and said teams are raiding locations to arrest him.
- Officers also named a second suspect as Lucky of village Iraq, and searches now extend to finding him as part of the same case.
- Investigators say a dispute over roughly 15 square yards of panchayat land, which is village council property, is the likely motive, though the inquiry remains open.
- On Tuesday, Congress workers and locals blocked the Machhiwara–Kohara road at Malwa Chowk to demand arrests, as the family withheld the post-mortem and last rites and party leaders accused the AAP government of lax policing; residents also alleged a slow initial police response.