Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) will take the Mansa Daljit Singh case to the Punjab State Human Rights Commission, party leader Daljit Singh Cheema announced on Wednesday, October 28, saying a SAD delegation will meet the Commission and formally appeal for action against the police personnel involved in the incident, Nation Press reported. Particle News independently reported the same announcement.

According to Cheema, as reported, the delegation will raise both the alleged forcible removal of Daljit Singh's mortal remains from his family and the alleged beating of the bereaved family during the incident, and will also place other cases of alleged police high-handedness before the Commission. The announcement is a step, not yet a filed complaint: the sources report the party's stated intention to approach the State Commission, which is separate from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) — the national body that on October 28 issued notices to Punjab's Chief Secretary and DGP seeking an Action Taken Report within two weeks in the same case, a development already covered on this site.

The announcement came alongside a broader attack by SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal, who told mediapersons in Chandigarh on Wednesday that Punjab's administrative system had 'totally collapsed' under the AAP government and accused Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of retreating from public life after sensing electoral rejection in 2027 — his claims, reported as claims. Invoking the Daljit Singh case, Badal said, 'Never has Punjab witnessed such a situation,' and argued that with no firm command at the top the police had begun acting entirely on their own, which he described as 'unprecedented.' The 'collapsed' charge itself, and Badal's parallel demand for early enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct, are already covered in this site's reporting of the same day's opposition moves; the State Commission delegation is the additional step announced on Wednesday.

The underlying facts of the Mansa case remain contested. Daljit Singh, of Bhamme Kalan village, was found dead on October 27; his family alleges a drug link and alleges police forcibly took the body as it was being taken to a protest; police have said preliminary findings point towards a possible murder, with the cause to be established by post-mortem. Neither version is established, and both the NHRC process and the police investigation are pending. If the SAD delegation does file with the State Commission, Punjab's government would face parallel human-rights scrutiny of the same police action at state and national level — a pressure point the Akali Dal is building its law-and-order campaign on ahead of 2027. No AAP government response to Wednesday's announcements was reported in the sources.