Official's suicide: Oppn parties hold joint protest against AAP govt

CHANDIGARH: (Mar 22) Police detained top opposition leader and used water cannons to disperse protesters as they tried to force their way through barricades here on Sunday to 'gherao' Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's residence during a joint stir to demand the arrest of former minister Laljit Singh Bhullar, accused of abetting the suicide of a state warehousing corporation official.

Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the district manager of Punjab State Warehousing Corporation in Amritsar, allegedly ended his life by consuming poison early Saturday, and a video appeared in which he purportedly claimed harassment by Bhullar, who resigned as minister later in the day at the direction of Mann amid the row.

The family of Randhawa told reporters in Amritsar that they will not allow a post-mortem examination and cremation until Bhullar is arrested.