India, Oct. 28 -- Activists of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) staged demonstrations outside police stations across 13 districts of Punjab on Wednesday to protest the Mansa police's action of taking control of a casket carrying the body of 35-year-old Daljit Singh.

Shingara Singh Mann, the state secretary of the union and coordinator of the action, said the gherao would continue until 4pm.

The union is demanding that the police administration immediately hand over Daljit's body to his family.

Daljit, a resident of Bhamme Kalan village in Mansa, was found dead in a field near Ramanandi village on Tuesday morning. While his family alleges he died of a drug overdose, Mansa police claimed he was murdered and that three suspects hav...