19 held, 200 detained, SIT formed; top cop says 37 leaders instigated violence
Published : Jan 28, 2021, 9:58 am IST
Updated : Jan 28, 2021, 9:58 am IST
The police has registered 25 FIRs for rioting, robbing, attempt to murder and other criminal offences
A farmer waves a flag along with others as they gather at Red Fort during their tractor parade on Republic Day, in New Delhi, Tuesday, January 26, 2021. Farmers have been agitating against new farm laws. (PTI/Arun Sharma)
New Delhi: A day after the national capital saw unprecedented violence during the farmers’ Republic Day tractor rally, Delhi police commissioner S.N. Shrivastava said on Wednesday some farmers’ leaders were also involved in the violence and that all those involved will not be spared. A Special Investigation Team, including officials from Special Cell, Crime Branch and the district police, has been constituted to investigate the incident.
Dubai: Protesting farmers in India were locked in a pitched battle with the police in Delhi on January 26, raising questions about where the agitation is heading.
Hundreds of protesters marched to the Red Fort last week and at one point the Nishan Sahib, a Sikh religious flag, was hoisted atop one of the domes at the 17th century, red sandstone edifice.
Will it mark a departure from the largely peaceful demonstrations against the government which began in November 2020 when 40 farmers’ unions formed the Samyukta Kissan Morcha (Joint Farmers Front)? They are demanding a complete rollback of three contentious new laws in the latest farm legislations introduced by the federal government.
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Two Farmer Unions Withdraw from Protests After Republic Day Violence in Delhi
Farmers continue to protest along a blocked highway at the Gazipur Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border in Ghaziabad on Tuesday. (AFP)
The Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu), which had publicly denounced the violence, have pulled out of the ongoing protests against the three contentious farm laws.
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A day after thousands of farmers stormed the national capital, laid siege to the Red Fort, and violently clashed with the Delhi police injuring over 100 security personnel, two farmer unions withdrew from the protests on Wednesday.
6 buses, 5 police vehicles damaged as 10,000 farmers stormed Delhi s ITO: FIR
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The Delhi Police stated the protestors tried to enter Luytens Delhi from Tilak Bridge despite not given permission to hold the tractor parade in the jurisdiction of IP Estate Police station where the first information report (FIR) was registered.
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NEW DELHI: Six Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and five police vehicles were damaged in the violence that broke out at ITO during the farmers tractor parade in the national capital on Republic Day, according to an FIR registered in connection with the incident.