The police sent Ashwani Kumar, the alleged shooter, and his associate, Vipin Kumar, to seven days' police remand.

The leader also appealed to the public to ensure that emergency services remained operational during the shutdown, urging people not to obstruct patients, wedding processions or passengers facing emergencies.

Punjab bandh shuts markets and schools after anti-drug activist Parvinder Jhota’s murder, with political backing and calls for resignations and a CBI probe.

The mood at the protests was openly hostile to the government. In Amritsar, farmers and members of various organisations raised slogans against the Bhagwant Mann-led government and demanded its dismissal, and Mann's effigy was burned. In Ludhiana, a man claiming to be a Waris Punjab De member took down posters of the Chief Minister.