Jalandhar, May 30 -- Simranjit Singh, a Jalandhar-based lawyer and right to information (RTI) activist, was shot dead over a financial dispute near Maheru village on the Jalandhar-Ludhiana national highway in Phagwara on Saturday, police said.

The body of 43-year-old victim, who recently moved the high court against Punjab's controversial anti-sacrilege law, was found with a gunshot wounds in a secluded plot behind the Lovely Professional University (LPU) campus.

Police have arrested Simranjit's cousin for the crime, said Jalandhar range deputy inspector general (DIG) Naveen Singla. "The accused, Sharanjit Singh (40), alias Twinkle, is a resident of Tilak Nagar in Jalandhar. He is the son of victim's maternal uncle," he added. DIG Singl...