Punjab DGP's Permanent Appointment Fails to Silence Guns; Anti-Drug Activist's Murder Sparks Political Storm

Neeraj BaliChandigarh, Oct 13 (UNI) Barely four days after Gaurav Yadav was appointed Punjab's regular Director General of Police after beign in an officiating capacity for more than four years, the daylight killing of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa on Tuesday has triggered a political storm, raising fresh questions over law and order, the safety of those campaigning against narcotics and the effectiveness of the Bhagwant Mann government's much-publicised anti-drug drive. The murder comes just two days after Assistant Sub-Inspector Iqbal Singh was gunned down by motorcycle-borne assailants in Tarn Taran on Sunday, becoming the fifth Punjab policeman…