Chandigarh, Oct. 13 -- A high-level meeting of Punjab's civil and police administration to review the state's anti-drug campaign, now being linked to the killing of activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa, had reportedly been planned before Tuesday's shooting, according to administrative sources and a government communication.
The meeting, to be chaired by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann at the Punjab Police Academy in Phillaur on October 16, was already scheduled, with deputy commissioners verbally informed about it on October 12, a day before Jhota was shot dead, the sources said.
A communication issued by Punjab's Department of General Administration on October 13 confirms that the meeting is scheduled for 10.30 a.m. on October 16 and wil...