Nanded, Aug. 14 -- Sixty-two-year-old Jaspal Singh, accused of attacking Shiromani Akali Dal chief and former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, was sent into police custody till August 24 by the Mudkhed Court in Nanded on Friday.

Sukhbir Badal was attacked with a dagger inside a gurudwara premises in Maharashtra's Nanded on Thursday, despite having Z-plus security cover. He suffered a wound of around four to five centimetres on his right forearm. A Special Protection Unit police officer accompanying him was also injured while attempting to protect him.

According to Nanded Superintendent of Police Nilabh Rohan, the accused was working as a sevadar at the gurdwara for around two years.

A day after being attacked, Badal sa...