: Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 6:23 PM IST History will not pardon us : 140 lawyers write to CJI SA Bobde, request him to take suo motu cognisance of Internet suspension near farmers protest sites
New Delhi: Farmers during their ongoing protest at Singhu Border, in New Delhi
PTI Photo A group of 140 lawyers have written to Chief Justice of India Sharad Bobde requesting him to take suo motu cognisance of the suspension of internet services near the farmers protest sites.
They have also demanded to set up an inquiry commission to probe the police inaction in controlling the violence and the role of Delhi Police in allegedly facilitating a mob attack on January 29 and failing to ensure peace and security .
MUMBAI, India
Sunita Malik sat in the driver’s seat of her tractor, parked behind a police barricade at the edge of India’s capital.
She and her husband had come 60 miles from their farm in northern India to the gates of New Delhi, where hundreds of thousands of farmers have camped out for two months in bone-chilling cold in one of the biggest protests in the country’s history.
They are demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government withdraw legislation aimed at boosting private investment in India’s heavily regulated farm sector, on which half of India’s 1.4 billion people depend for their livelihoods. They fear the laws will undermine the government price supports that prop up small-hold farmers and open the door to a corporate takeover of agriculture.