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Bajrang Dal Members Face Abetment Charges Following Vigilante Suspect’s Suicide

The FIR stems from a video in which Lokesh Singla accused three colleagues of prolonged mental torture that drove him to kill himself.

Despite HT’s queries, Bajrang Dal did not comment on the allegations. But an active member of the group termed the allegations as “baseless”. (File photo)
Lokesh Singla, resident of Bichhor village in Haryana | Photo: By special arrangement

Overview

  • Lokesh Singla, accused in the 2023 Nasir-Junaid lynching, died on July 5 after jumping in front of a train near Palwal on the Delhi–Agra rail line.
  • In a purported final video, Singla named state convenor Bharat Bhushan and members Harkesh Yadav and Anil Kaushik for sending goons to menace him and threaten false cases.
  • Singla’s wife, Damyanti, lodged a complaint leading the Government Railway Police in Faridabad to register an FIR for abetment to suicide against the three Bajrang Dal figures.
  • Deputy Superintendent Rajesh Chechi said investigators are probing the harassment claims and examining whether internal disputes or links to the original lynching motivated the threats.
  • Analysts say the case exposes deep rifts within cow vigilante networks and heightens calls for greater oversight of communal vigilantism.