Ludhiana district: A 20-year-old footballer, Karanvir Singh, alias Gopi, of Latala village in Ludhiana district was found murdered near the village cremation ground, and police have arrested a youth from the same village in the case, according to police reporting carried by Jugti. Police registered a murder case at the Chappar police post under Jodhan police station and arrested Gurkirat Singh Ravi, who was sent to three days of police remand by a court. Police said the investigation is continuing and the role of others is being examined.

Source: Jugti, Nov 14, 2026

Karanvir left home on his scooter at about 7 p.m. on November 10 to buy household rations and never returned. His family searched for him through the night and found his body the next morning, November 11, near the cremation ground, with a plastic sack stuffed in his mouth. His father, Balwinder Singh, told police he suspected Gurkirat Singh Ravi, alleging that Ravi believed Karanvir was in touch with his sister. That suspicion is the father's allegation as reported to police; the arrested youth is the alleged accused and the case has not been tried.

Source: Jugti, Nov 14, 2026

BJP chief turns the killing into an attack on the Mann government

Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon on Saturday seized on the killing, saying law and order in the state had totally collapsed under Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and demanding that Mann step down as home minister at once. Speaking in Chandigarh, Dhillon said the Aam Aadmi Party government had “forfeited every moral right to govern,” and demanded strict punishment for all the culprits in the Latala case, fast-track justice and fair compensation for Karanvir Singh's family. He said violent crime now went unchecked even in rural Punjab.

Source: The Punjab Standard, Nov 14, 2026

“Day after day, the same grim script repeats itself across Punjab, yet the Bhagwant Mann government remains a mute spectator,” Dhillon said. “Whether it is the blood of our young athletes spilling on village roads, traders facing bullets for refusing ransom, or senior administrative officers colluding with the mining mafia to loot crores, this regime has completely failed to stop the rot.”

Source: The Punjab Standard, Nov 14, 2026

Dhillon's second example came from Bathinda's Bhagta Bhai Ka, where, according to Dhillon's account, two armed shooters looted a motorcycle and opened fire at a dairy because the owner had not paid extortion money. Dhillon said gangsters were running a parallel extortion economy across Punjab while the chief minister was busy with political tours outside the state, and he demanded a tough crackdown on extortion gangs. The dairy firing is reported here as Dhillon cited it; neither report carried independent police confirmation of that incident.

Source: Jugti, Nov 14, 2026

The third case Dhillon cited was the Enforcement Directorate's arrest in Pathankot of a former additional deputy commissioner and a mining businessman in an illegal mining and fraudulent land-transfer case, in which, according to Dhillon, the agency recovered Rs 1.75 crore in cash and froze 31 bank accounts. Dhillon said the case exposed the government's claims of wiping out the mining mafia and sought an independent probe into the alleged political patronage behind the nexus. Awaaz Punjab has already reported that arrest in full.

Source: The Punjab Standard, Nov 14, 2026

Read the full Pathankot ED arrest report: Pathankot: ED arrests former ADC in mining case