Bathinda, Oct. 15 -- Hours after anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh, alias Jhota, was shot dead in Mansa, the police on Wednesday arrested the accused, a pharmacy owner, from Rajasthan even as anger against the killing spilled onto the streets, with mob setting the chemist's shop ablaze and authorities razing a portion of his house.

Jhota's father gave a Punjab bandh call on Thursday with political parties, including the Congress, Akali Dal, BJP, Akali Dal Waris Punjab De, and farmers' body Samyukta Kisan Morcha and other farmers' unions and state government employees' unions extending support to it. The family has also refused to cremate the body.

Known for raising his voice against drug abuse and illegal sale of addictive substances a...