Cong leaders visit kin of SAD leader killed in police shooting

Congress leaders today visited the family of local SAD leader Mukhjit Singh, who was killed in police firing earlier this week, and demanded the state government to provide job and financial assistance to his kin.
The leaders, led by District Congress Committee Rural President Gurjeet Singh Aujla, met the family and friends of 38-year-old Mukhjit at his house in Verka here and expressed sympathy with them.
Earlier this week, a Punjab police team had shot dead Mukhjit, a SAD youth activist, claiming that they mistook him for a wanted gangster.
"The family wants the case to be probed by a sitting or retired High Court judge," Aujla said after the meeting.

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal had visited Mukhjit's family yesterday and expressed sympathy with them assuring them of adequate police security and ex-gratia payment as per government rule.
Badal had also assured them that action against those responsible would be taken in a time-bound manner following an SIT inquiry.