India, Oct. 27 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said the government has accepted all the legitimate demands raised by the family and the insaaf committee in connection with the murder of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa.

"We have accepted all the legitimate demands of the family. It is now up to the family and the committee to decide when they will perform Jhota's last rites," Mann said after flagging off 100 new minibuses in Patiala.

Jhota was shot dead on October 13 inside a medical store in a crowded Mansa marketplace.

The slain activist's body remains in the Mansa civil hospital mortuary, as the family and the insaaf committee continue to withhold consent for the post-mortem examination until their demands...