Overview
- The Punjab State Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance and scheduled a January 27, 2026 hearing in the Phagwara case.
- The commission ordered Kapurthala SSP Gaurav Toora and Phagwara MC commissioner Akshita Gupta to submit reports a week before the hearing.
- SDM Jashanjit Singh sought a report from the civil surgeon and questioned why the hospital’s government ambulance was not used.
- Video from Phagwara Civil Hospital showed an unclaimed body, found earlier at the railway station, being loaded into a municipal garbage collection vehicle and taken to the cremation ground.
- Mayor Rampal Uppal promised strict action and an inquiry, commissioner Akshita Gupta said action was initiated, and a PTI report cited sources saying a sanitary inspector was suspended.