Police said Desh Raj was attacked with sharp-edged weapons, including swords. He bore cuts near his ear and neck, and also suffered injuries on one of his legs.
Former Congress MLA from Barnala Kewal Dhillon and former SAD MLAs Sarup Chand Singla and Mohinder Kaur Josh also joined the BJP.
The girl originally hails from Rajasthan and is presently residing here, according to police.
His statement came after Moosewala’s father Balkaur Singh demanded a probe by a sitting judge of the high court into the murder.
According to the Delhi police special cell both Moose Wala and his manager were involved in the murder of Vicky in August last year.
The FIR has been registered under sections 302, 307, and 341 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act at City-1 at Mansa Police Station.
The Congress leader was shot at by the unknown people and was brought dead to the Mansa hospital, as per the Civil Surgeon.
Notably, the Punjabi singer was shot dead a day after his security was withdrawn by the Punjab police, along with 424 others.
An announcement in this regard was made by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on his Twitter handle.
Those whose security cover has been withdrawn included many retired police officers, religious leaders and political figures.
The Aam Aadmi Party has been in power in Punjab for barely two months. The chief minister himself announced the removal of Singla from the council of ministers.
In a Facebook LIVE on Saturday, he said “Good luck and goodbye to Congress”. The Congress had last month removed him from all positions for alleged anti-party activities.
Fire Officer Lovepreet Singh said, “Initially, the fire broke out in the transformers. Eight fire tenders reached on spot. The fire is under control. No injuries reported.”
The disgruntled Congress leader, whose decision comes during the party’s three-day Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, went live on his Facebook page to make the announcement.
The Union Minister further said that in the past too, Punjab had faced the heat of terrorism for several decades, and therefore, there is a need for a lot of promptness and vigilance in the state.
On Monday night, the Punjab Police intelligence wing headquarters was targeted with an RPG by an unidentified person(s). No one was injured in yesterday’s incident.
Director General of Police (DGP) V K Bhawra after a meeting with senior officials told reporters here that a projectile had hit the building and the explosive used in it seems to be TNT (trinitrotoluene).
He held a meeting with DGP and other officers into the matter at his residence and sought a report on the course of action taken so far.
A rocket-propelled grenade hit the Punjab Police’ intelligence wing headquarters around 7.45 pm on Monday. The explosion shattered the window panes on one of the floors of the building.
Mann said that it is high time that countrymen must unite to wipe out the parties sowing seed of divisiveness in society.
Two policemen were among those injured. On Saturday morning the Punjab government temporarily suspended mobile internet services from 9:30 am to 6 pm in the city today.
In the run up to the Punjab Assembly polls in February, AAP leaders had targeted successive governments in the state for allegedly pushing the state into a debt trap.
The girl, who hails from a village in Himachal Pradesh, was allegedly in touch with a man whom she had befriended through social media, Talwara Police Station SHO Manmohan Singh said.
Chief Minister Mann had on Thursday said in Jalandhar that ”good news” would be announced on April 16.
The appointments bear the stamp of Rahul Gandhi who had named Raja Warring as Indian Youth Congress president and Pratap Singh Bajwa as Punjab Congress chief a few years ago.
