Dalit youth’s body found in canal; kin protest

Moga, A 22-year-old Dalit youth has died under mysterious circumstances at Lohgarh village in the Dharamkot subdivision of the district today.
Identified as Inderjit Singh, son of Nikka Singh, his body was recovered from a water channel flowing on the outskirts of the village.
Family members of the deceased youth had alleged that Inderjit was murdered.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Inderjit went out of his house on Friday evening for a haircut, but did not return. The family members looked for him, but to no avail. On Saturday morning, a few villagers found his body in the water channel.
The police sent it to the district hospital at Moga for post-mortem.
Later, the relatives of Inderjit staged a protest by blocking the Lohgarh-Dharamkot link road.

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