Patiala(Punjab)/April,12: A police officer’s hand was chopped off and two other officers were injured when a group of people attacked them at a vegetable market in Punjab’s Patiala district Sunday morning. Top officers said the three persons involved in the attack have been arrested. Three others have been detained for questioning, the sources said.
The officer — Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Harjeet Singh — has been taken to the hospital, where the doctors are operating on him.
The police said they were attacked when they were trying to ensure the lockdown was in place. Punjab – where thousands of people staying abroad returned after the outbreak started – has extended the lockdown till May 1.
