Militant outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan releases video of Amritsar cop’s killing
TTH has previously issued warnings to all government employees and police officials to resign “if they wish to live.”
The footage captures the sequence of the attack on ASI Joga Singh in chilling detail while he was travelling on his two-wheeler on May 24. (Representational image) Two days after Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan (TTH) claimed responsibility for the murder of a Punjab Police assistant sub-inspector posted in Amritsar, the militant outfit on Wednesday released a video of the killing.
The footage, which has surfaced on social media, captures the sequence of the attack on ASI Joga Singh in chilling detail while he was travelling on his two-wheeler on Sunday, May 24. A day later, TTH had claimed responsibility for the murder.
Assailants opened fire at close range, striking ASI Singh twice – once on the left side of his chest and once in the waist. With no bystanders nearby at that early hour, he received no immediate assistance and died at the scene. ASI Joga Singh, a resident of Ghaniye village in Gurdaspur, was commuting to duty after a punctured tyre prevented him from using his car.
The video shows him identifiable by the same clothes he was found dead in — a police uniform with a robe around his neck, the same attire seen in the surveillance photograph of the officer released by TTH before he was shot at.
Attackers are then seen opening fire on ASI Singh as he rides his vehicle. He is seen falling to the roadside following the shots. The assailants subsequently approach his body and film it at close range — a pattern consistent with how TTH documented the earlier double murder of policemen at the Adiyan outpost in Gurdaspur district in February. The little-known outfit had also claimed responsibility for the double murder that took place about 2 km from the India-Pakistan border.
Following the May 24 killing, TTH had explicitly claimed it possessed video evidence of the murder and would release it. The outfit had already released a surveillance photograph of Singh — taken prior to the attack and showing him in the same clothes — which had indicated the attackers had conducted systematic reconnaissance of their target.
The video mirrors TTH’s conduct in the Gurdaspur case, where the accused, Ranjit Singh, allegedly transmitted a video of the double murder to handlers based in Pakistan, and TTH subsequently released it publicly.
TTH has previously issued warnings to all government employees and police officials to resign “if they wish to live.”
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