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  • R-Day violence: Farmer’s loss of life throughout tractor rally not as a consequence of gunshot, says Delhi Police

    Image Source : PTI R-Day violence: Farmer’s loss of life throughout tractor rally not as a consequence of gunshot, says Delhi Police
    The Delhi Police on Friday knowledgeable the excessive courtroom that the loss of life of a farmer whose tractor overturned in the course of the tractor rally on Republic Day was as a consequence of shock and hemorrhage on account of head harm, and never as a consequence of any gunshot harm. The police said this within the standing report filed in a petition moved by deceased Navreet Singh’s grandfather looking for a court-monitored SIT probe into the loss of life. He asserted that Navreet Singh was allegedly shot by the policemen, as a consequence of which he misplaced management of the tractor.
    Navreet Singh died on January 26 after his tractor overturned after ramming into police barricades in the course of the tractor rally. The accident was captured on a CCTV digicam.
    “As per the opinion of the panel of doctors which conducted the post-mortem, the cause of death is shock and hemorrhage as a result of ante-mortem head injury. The death is not due to any gunshot injury,” the standing report said.
    A panel of three medical doctors, particularly Mohammad Zubair, Dashrath Singh and Manoj Kumar Shukla, performed the autopsy at 2 a.m. on January 27.
    “The doctors did an X-ray before conducting the post-mortem. The X-Ray plates prima facie showed that there was no gunshot injury in the body of the deceased,” the police advised the courtroom.

    It is pertinent to say right here that the medical doctors who performed the autopsy had been medical specialists and there’s no substantive floor to query their efficiency or responsibility, the police added.
    The plea by Navreet Singh’s grandfather Hardeep Singh had searched for a court-appointed and monitored Special Investigation Team probe. It additionally sought the SIT to file periodic standing stories to make sure a time-bound, court-monitored investigation.
    The petition mentioned the forensic specialists, who reviewed the outline of accidents within the autopsy report, independently opined that the accidents had been according to firearm or gunshot wounds and couldn’t have resulted from the tractor overturning.

     
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  • Farmers at Ghazipur plant flowers in response to ‘iron nails’

    Farmers at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Friday planted flower saplings alongside a highway stretch, saying it was their response to “iron nails” mounted within the space by the police.
    Stringent safety measures like multi-layered barricading, concertina wires, had come up together with iron nails cemented on roads across the protest web site within the wake of the January 26 violence in Delhi.
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait mentioned, “The police had fixed iron nails for farmers but we have decided to plant flowers for them.”
    Rows of marigold flowers have come up close to the barricading solely in a “symbolic gesture” however a comparatively larger plantation drive was underway on a highway stretch close by, BKU media incharge Dharmendra Malik mentioned.
    “A flower garden is being created on the Delhi-Dabur Tiraha road. This will cover the dirt lying on road stretches, and also emanate fragrance and improve the environment around,” Malik mentioned.

    Farmers, who’re getting the flower saplings from close by nurseries, mentioned they have been on the trail of “peaceful” demonstration.
    Farmers, together with these from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan, are tenting in non permanent tarpaulin-roofed shelters, whereas many have their tractor-trailers double up as their resting place which have come up on a stretch of the Delhi-Meerut freeway.
    Besides Ghazipur, hundreds of farmers are protesting at Tikri and Singh on Delhi’s outskirts since November 2020 with a requirement that the federal government repeal the brand new agri-marketing legal guidelines believing they’d harm their livelihood. The authorities, which has held no less than 11 rounds of formal talks with the representatives of the protesting farmer unions, has maintained that the legal guidelines enacted final September are pro-farmer.

  • Firm on demand of repealing farm legal guidelines; determination on future motion after tractor parade, say farmers

    Image Source : PTI Lucknow: Farmers, below the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union, throughout their march to Raj Bhavan to current a memorandum to UP Governor towards Centre’s farm reform legal guidelines, in Lucknow, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021.
    Protesting farmer leaders on Saturday remained agency on their demand of an entire repeal of the three contentious farm legal guidelines and mentioned their fast focus is on the January 26 tractor parade. The union leaders mentioned the following plan of action will likely be determined solely after the tractor parade. Farmer leaders held a marathon assembly on Saturday to rethink the federal government’s proposal to place the legislations on maintain for 18 months, however no consensus might be reached.
    This got here a day after the federal government requested the farmer leaders to revert by Saturday in case they comply with its proposal to droop the legislations.
    “Since the beginning of our agitation, our demand is very clear. We want a complete repeal of these three laws, and we will not settle for anything less than the repeal of the new farm laws,” Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni mentioned.
    He mentioned that farmer unions are at present specializing in their proposed January 26 tractor parade, and after Republic Day, they may resolve on the following plan of action.
    Unlike the final 10 rounds of talks between the federal government and the farmer union leaders, the eleventh spherical on Friday noticed either side hardening their positions. They couldn’t even attain a call on the following date for a gathering.

    This adopted an enormous climbdown made by the Centre within the talks on Wednesday when it supplied to droop the legal guidelines for 1-1.5 years and type a joint committee to seek out options, in return for protesting farmers going again to their respective houses from Delhi borders.
    Thousands of farmers, principally from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been tenting at a number of Delhi border factors since November 28 final yr, demanding a repeal of three farm legal guidelines and a authorized assure on MSP for his or her crops.
    Enacted in September final yr, the three legal guidelines have been projected by the Centre as main reforms within the agriculture sector that may take away middlemen and permit farmers to promote their produce anyplace within the nation.
    However, the protesting farmers have expressed their apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the way in which for eliminating the protection cushion of MSP and put off the ‘mandi’ (wholesale market) system, leaving them on the mercy of huge corporates.
    (With PTI inputs)

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