Rs2M for slain leader’s widow
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday directed that a compensation of Rs2 million be paid to the wife of a Shiromani Akali Dal leader of Punjab who was killed in 2015 in a shootout by the police who mistook him for a gangster. The high court ordered the compensation to Mukhjit Singh Mukha’s wife Harjit Kaur. The victim was only 38 years old when he was waylaid by a team of the Punjab Police in Amritsar district on June 16, 2015, and was indiscriminately fired upon.—