Workers said many of them have been spending money from their own pockets to buy biscuits and other packaged food. Some have also been bringing extra tiffins from home so that children have something to eat.
According to the FBI, Bedi was involved in a scheme between March 2024 and June 2025 that caused a loss of at least $600,000 to the US government. His store dealt with customers who used Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards to access SNAP benefits.
Before the Amritsar case, just a few hours earlier at about 8 pm, a parked scooter caught fire outside the BSF Punjab Frontier headquarters in Jalandhar.
As per the victim, the mob caught hold of him and forced him to chant 'Allah hu Akbar'. He resisted the mob and said that he would only chant 'Jai Shri Ram' as per his Hindu Faith.