Baghpat police forcibly evicted protesting farmers, who’ve been staging a sit-in in opposition to the three new farm legal guidelines for the final 40 days, in Baraut city of the district late Wednesday night time.
The protesting farmers have been sleeping of their tents round 11 pm on Wednesday when policemen chased them away, uprooted their tents and allegedly threw away their belongings on the highway.
“We have been holding a peaceful dharna for the last 40 days. We do not know why police suddenly became violent and attacked us with lathis, causing injuries to six farmers,” Brijpal Singh, one of many farmers’ leaders mentioned.
Police have additionally registered an FIR in opposition to unnamed protester for alleged violation of Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Ordinance, and CrPC part 144 (illegal meeting), the police mentioned, including that the FIR was filed on a criticism lodged by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI).
Condemning the police motion on the protesting farmers, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary tweeted,” Police lathicharged the farmers who have been sleeping (of their tents) in Baraut. Are they criminals or terrorists?”.
He additionally tagged the picture of a blood-soaked hand of an “aged farmer” asking, if was he a terrorist.
Police claimed that the protesting farmers have been eliminated as they have been inflicting hindrance of the freeway development work.
“The NHAI wrote a letter to us requesting that the protesting farmers be removed from the site as their agitation was causing hindrance on the development of the highway. We have lodged the FIR against the farmers on the basis of the NHAI letter,” mentioned Abhishek Singh,the PRO of the SP(Baghpat).
He additionally claimed that the police didn’t use pressure in opposition to the farmers. “We talked to them and they agreed to our request,” the PRO claimed.
Farmers in Baraut have mentioned that they’ll maintain a mahapanchayat on January 31 to place strain for the repeal of the three agriculture legal guidelines.
BKU staff show exterior police stations
Meanwhile, native items of Bhartiya Kisan Union(BKU) have determined to carry indefinite dharna and demonstrations exterior all of the police stations in Muzzafarnagar and Shamli districts from Thursday to protest in opposition to lodging of an FIR in opposition to their chief, Rakesh Tikait, in Delhi for the violence throughout January 26 protests.
“Our leader Rakesh Tikait and around 24 other farmers have been falsely booked by the Dehli Police in connection with the Republic Day agitation outside the Red Fort. The protesting farmers at Delhi borders have nothing to do with the miscreants who tried to malign our image at the behest of the BJP government at the Centre. We will continue our agitation till the case against our leader and others is withdrawn,” Yogesh Sharma, the final secretary of the BKU’s Muzzafarnagar unit, mentioned.
Police in each the districts have barricaded the police stations and further forces have been deployed.
