‘We Were Humiliated’: Slain Activist Jhota’s Father Crushes Govt's Peace Deal

Parvinder Jhota Father Video: Just hours after Punjab officials claimed an agreement was reached, slain anti-drug activist Parvinder Jhota’s father, Bhim Singh, released a video accusing officials of humiliation and demanding the Mansa SSP’s removal.

North Desk Correspondent

Mansa, October 24

For a few hours on Friday evening, the Punjab administration believed it had engineered a breakthrough in the explosive 11-day standoff over the brazen murder of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota.

A high-powered government panel featuring senior IAS officers announced that core concessions had been granted: the CBI had assumed jurisdiction, PGI Chandigarh specialists would conduct the autopsy, compensation of ₹5 lakh was earmarked for each of the injured, old FIRs against Jhota’s anti-drug campaigns were being rescinded, and a district trauma centre would bear his name. The civil administration publicly appealed to the family to clear the pending autopsy and cremation.

By Saturday morning, that carefully drafted peace initiative completely unraveled.

In a raw video statement, Jhota’s father, Bhim Singh—an ex-serviceman who has spent almost a fortnight watching his son’s body remain frozen in a mortuary—torpedoed the administration’s consensus narrative.

Alleging that the family was subjected to contempt and bureaucratic humiliation during negotiations, Bhim Singh announced a total boycott of any future talks until Mansa Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vaibhav Chaudhary is removed from the equation.

Parvinder Jhota Father Video:

1. The Anatomy of a Broken Consensus

The speed with which the official consensus collapsed exposes a deep disconnect between state’s bureaucratic strategy and the anger on the streets of Mansa.

While Special Secretary Apneet Riyat and Divisional Commissioner Kanwalpreet Kaur Brar outlined systemic concessions—such as scheduling pharmaceutical drugs like Pregabalin under Schedule H1 to curb illicit sales—the family and the Joint Sangharsh (Action) Committee made it clear that administrative packaging cannot substitute for frontline accountability.

The family pointed out crucial gaps in the state’s offer:

• Suspension vs. Dismissal: The state suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Harjinder Singh Gill, Drug Inspector Naresh Kumar, and City-2 SHO Beant Kaur. The action committee rejected mere suspensions, demanding criminal complicity inquiries and outright dismissal.

• Concrete Sanctions for the Memorial: While the government verbally offered a trauma centre, committee representatives noted that no financial allocation or formal notification accompanied the promise.

• Family Security Gaps: Despite official assurances, the family asserted on Friday night that promised high-security cover had still not materialized on the ground.

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2. Why the Mansa Police Command Is the Flashpoint

Parvinder Jhota Father Video: Bhim Singh’s refusal to sit at any table where Mansa SSP Vaibhav Chaudhary is present is not an arbitrary escalation; it cuts directly to the core grievance behind Jhota’s murder.

In 2023, Jhota had been booked and jailed by local police following vigilantism against synthetic pharmaceutical sellers—including the very chemist, Ashwani Kumar, who would eventually gun him down on October 13 while Jhota was live on social media.

The family contends that repeated warnings regarding nexus and retaliatory threats were dismissed by district police brass, leaving Jhota an unprotected target while the chemist operated with impunity. For the family, negotiating across a boardroom table with the same district police leadership accused of turning a deaf ear to those warnings felt like an insult to their loss.

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3. Caught in the Centre vs State Pincer

Parvinder Jhota Father Video: The Mansa impasse has rapidly transformed from a local law-and-order failure into a high-stakes political battlefield:

• The Union Home Ministry Inroad: On October 20, Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a direct meeting with Jhota’s kin. The Punjab government rushed to notify a CBI probe just hours ahead of the meeting, attempting to preempt federal intervention.

• Statewide Backlash: The joint action committee has already called for an escalation, announcing statewide demonstrations on October 25 where symbols of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will be burned across Punjab towns and villages.

• The Postmortem Deadlock: The CBI may have secured five-day remand of the shooter Ashwani Kumar and launched searches across his associate network, but without the family’s formal sign-off for the autopsy at PGIMER Chandigarh, the forensic foundation of the murder prosecution remains in suspended animation.

The Human Core of the Impasse

Parvinder Jhota Father Video: At the heart of the standoff sits an ex-serviceman who refuses to let procedural settlements dilute his son’s anti-drug mission.

By going live on social media to call out administrative humiliation, Bhim Singh shifted the power dynamic back to the protest site. The state government now faces a hard reality: no amount of financial compensation, committee-level briefings, or promises of memorials will end the standoff until accountability reaches the police officers who oversaw Mansa’s administrative machinery.

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