The Bathinda district police have identified Shamsher Singh, alias Shera, as the fifth accused in the murder of social media influencer Kanchan Kumari, known as Kanchan Bhabhi. Nearly a year after her murder, which was carried out by alleged Sikh radicals, police confirmed that Singh is an accomplice of another suspect, Ranjit Singh, also from Tarn Taran. Kanchan was reportedly strangled to death on the night of June 9-10, 2022, in what police termed an incident of 'unauthorized moral policing.' Her decomposing body was found on June 11, 2022, in the parking lot of Adesh Medical College and Hospital in Bhucho, Bathinda. Following the incident, two other accomplices, Jaspreet Singh and Nimratjit Singh, were arrested on June 12, 2022. The alleged mastermind, Amritpal Singh Mehron, was apprehended last month after being deported from the United Arab Emirates. Ranjit Singh, who allegedly assisted Mehron in fleeing to the airport shortly after the crime, was arrested in February 2023. A supplementary challan has been submitted to a Bathinda court following Mehron's arrest, although details remain undisclosed by the police.