Hoshiarpur, July 23 -- Police on Wednesday booked six persons for the murder of Aam Aadmi Party sarpanch Satpal, who was stabbed and mowed down outside his residence in Hoshiarpur's Anandgarh village late Tuesday night.

Police said Satpal, alias Mintu, 52, was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and later run over by the vehicle in which the assailants came when he tried to intervene in a clash between two groups outside his residence. Police said the attackers hailed from adjacent Mehlanwali village.

Family members of the deceased and the local villagers staged a protest on Wednesday and refused to cremate the body till all the accused are arrested.

Hoshiarpur's senior superintendent of police (SSP) Sandeep Kumar Malik said the case und...