Kapurthala, August 27: A local municipal council employee today allegedly beaten to death by a colleague and his five associates, police said.
Former Kapurthala Municipal Employees Union President Jaspal Singh (50), who was husband of district Congress Mahila President president Neelam Sidhu, was allegedly murdered by watchman and clerk of the municipal council.
Neelam in her complaint said, watchman Parbhash Kumar and his brother Subhash Kumar, a clerk at the municipal council office here, attacked Jaspal when he reached his office today and beat him up along with their four associates.
Jaspal was declared brought dead at the local hospital.
Demanding the arrest and registration of murder case against all the accused, scores Congress leaders and municipal councillors assembled at the hospital and blocked the vehicular movement on Kapurthala-Sultanpurlodhi road for more than four hours.
They cleared the road only when police has registered a murder case against Parbhash and Subhash.
—Agencies