India, Oct. 21 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday visited the families of victims of drug-related violence in Batala, Sangrur and Mansa, assuring them that justice would be delivered. He reiterated the Centre's target of making India drug-free by December 31, 2029, with a particular focus on Punjab.

Shah later attended the Dussehra celebrations in Ludhiana in the evening. Speaking to the media, he welcomed the CBI probe ordered into the killing of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh alias Jhota and demanded that the cases related to the Batala murder of Bikramjit Singh and the suicide of a Dalit man in Sangrur also be handed over to the central probe agency. This was Shah's third visit to poll-bound Punjab since March, and second...