Overview
- Police say two masked intruders entered Mewa Singh’s home in Ladpur/Tooran village and fatally attacked him in the early hours of Tuesday, prompting neighbours to alert officers.
- Initial reports described a beheading and multiple severe wounds but a senior police officer later said Singh sustained multiple deep injuries and was not beheaded.
- Fatehgarh Sahib police registered an FIR naming two unknown persons, a forensic team collected evidence at the scene, and investigators have opened multiple lines of inquiry.
- Singh had been a prime accused in an October 2020 sacrilege case, spent about a year in jail, saw his bail canceled and later restored, and had recently been working at a local mill after leaving his tailoring business.
- The killing comes after Punjab’s new, tougher sacrilege law was passed in April and will be watched for arrests, forensic findings, and any confirmed link between the assault and the 2020 case.