Neeraj BaliChandigarh, Oct. 13 -- Barely four days after Gaurav Yadav was appointed Punjab's regular Director General of Police after beign in an officiating capacity for more than four years, the daylight killing of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa on Tuesday has triggered a political storm, raising fresh questions over law and order, the safety of those campaigning against narcotics and the effectiveness of the Bhagwant Mann government's much-publicised anti-drug drive.
The murder comes just two days after Assistant Sub-Inspector Iqbal Singh was gunned down by motorcycle-borne assailants in Tarn Taran on Sunday, becoming the fifth Punjab policeman reported killed this year. The two incidents have intensified scrutiny of ...