No questions when cops attacked, why on safety now: Delhi Police on barricading farm protest websites

Amid questions on the stringent safety alongside New Delhi’s borders as farmers proceed their protest in opposition to the farm legal guidelines, the Delhi Police has defended its barricading strategies within the areas.
Addressing reporters Tuesday, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Srivastava mentioned he was stunned that ‘fewer questions were raised on the violent events of January 26’, when policemen had been attacked and barricades damaged by the protesters.
“I am surprised that when tractors were used, police was attacked and barricades were broken on 26th, no questions were raised. What did we do now? We have just strengthened barricading so that it is not broken again,” mentioned Delhi’s prime cop.
Delhi Police personnel seen holding lance-like steel batons.
To forestall extra farmers from amassing at New Delhi’s borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, the police have positioned iron spikes and wood boards with nails on the roads. The iron barricades have been fortified by concertina wires and double layers of concrete slabs, troublesome to maneuver even by tractors.
The police have more and more fortified the Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri borders within the wake of the violence on January 26. (Express photograph: Amit Mehra)
Commenting on the steel batons purportedly seen being carried by some police personnel, the commissioner mentioned he had no concept about the identical, asserting that “steel batons are not a part of police weaponry”.
A day after Shahdara district police distributed 60 lance-like steel batons to police personnel of their district, senior officers from Delhi Police Headquarters Tuesday requested them to roll again the choice to make use of them as anti-riot tools, and wait for his or her approval.
As many as 510 police personnel had been injured within the violence related to protest in opposition to the farm legal guidelines, SN Srivastava advised reporters.

The Delhi Police registered a complete of 44 FIRs in opposition to protesters in reference to the violence through the tractor march and arrested 122 individuals. The police have additionally despatched notices to over 54 farm leaders and 200 tractor house owners. Punjabi movie actor Deep Sidhu, who campaigned for BJP’s Sunny Deol in 2019 elections, has additionally come up in movies, addressing crowds in regards to the route for tractor march.
When requested about Sidhu’s involvement within the violence, his whereabouts and arrests, the Commissioner mentioned, “I don’t want to talk about one person or organisation. This all is a part of the investigation. We have also appealed to the general public to send us videos and photos from that day. We have received more than 1,000 video footage and also received photos and mails. We are scanning them and through FIRs we are investigating the matter. I just want to say that whoever has participated in this violence, we will take legal action against them.”
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha has introduced a brand new nationwide ‘chakka jam’ on February 6.