00:00Punjab government blinks over anti-drug activist murder case.
00:03Maan government and Jhota family agree on key demands.
00:07Punjab government to provide job to Jhota's wife.
00:09Cases against family members of Jhota to be dropped.
00:13Two crore compensation for the family of the anti-drug activists.
00:17And the post-mortem will be done on November 6th and then formation will follow.
00:22So anti-drug activist Jhota, remember, was shot dead in Punjab,
00:26after which the family did not let the authorities do the post-mortem.
00:31And the cremation has also not been done.
00:34And now the Punjab government has agreed to the demands of the Jhota family.
00:39The Punjab government will be providing job to Jhota's wife.
00:42The cases against the family members of Jhota will also be dropped.
00:46And in fact, a two crore compensation for the family has also been announced by the Punjab government.
00:52Now what we are learning is that the post-mortem will be done tomorrow
00:54and the cremation will also follow the post-mortem.
00:59My colleague Aseem Bassi is now joining us with more details on this.
01:02Aseem, tell us more about the agreements which have been made between the Jhota family
01:07and the Maan government and the update on the cremation.
01:14Well, after a lot of rounds of talks, the agreement has been reached between the Pravinder Jhota family and the
01:21Punjab government.
01:22The compensation will be 2 crores and the job will be given to his family.
01:26Other than this, Lakha, Sidhana, Mohundi, Shero, who have been arrested by the police,
01:30they will be released, the cases listed against the anti-drug force, anti-drug task force ran by Pravinder Jhota.
01:39They will be cancelled.
01:40More than this, it is also told that those who tore the posters of the Maan government,
01:47and they were booked and they will also be released.
01:50And the cases will be cancelled against them.
01:55So, after a lot of talks, yesterday, Kultar Singh Sanwa, the Speaker of Punjabi Dhan Sabah,
02:00and the Agriculture Minister, Gumeet Singh Khuddiyami, met the family.
02:03It was a longish meeting, and after that, a formal announcement was made
02:07that the post-mortem will be done on 6th of November from the PGI Chambican.
02:12And already, the CBI is probing this matter.
02:15All right, Aseem, thank you for those details.
02:17So, the post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow,
02:20and after which, the cremation of Jhota will also follow.
