Punjab: Dalit Boys Forced to Walk With Tied Hands for Four Kms in Sangrur
A case has been registered and the police have already arrested four men in connection with the incident.
A file image of a protest against crimes against Dalit people. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: Four Dalit boys, aged 11 to 13, were tied by their wrists and made to walk four kilometres in Punjab’s Sangrur district for a theft they had allegedly committed. The incident came to light when a video of the incident surfaced online and went viral, according to media reports.
A case has been registered at Dhuri Sadar police station in the district, and the police have already arrested four men in connection with the incident. The families of the boys have also petitoned the state child rights commission.
Widows of farmers at Tikri protest say new laws would compound hardships Nabeela paniyath for the caravan No one is here to help,” Baldev Kaur said. “No one’s here when we are grieving. No one turns around to check up on us. On 16 December, hundreds of women at Tikri, on the Haryana-Delhi border, carried photos of their husbands and kin who had died by suicide due to financial distress in the farm sector. The women were attending an event that highlighted the issue of farmers’ suicides, organised by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan) as a part of the ongoing protests against three new farm laws. The women explained how the new farm laws would compound their difficulties.
Faridkot farmer cycles 400 km to reach Tikri border with poem of Pash
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Last Updated: Dec 22, 2020, 10:14 AM IST
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Synopsis I could not control myself after knowing about the condition of my fellow farmers who are braving the chilling winter and so many difficulties for a common goal. My brother had come a few days ago in a tractor-trolley, which is parked at the Tikri border protest site. I decided to leave too and rode till here on a bicycle, Sandhu told PTI.
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NEW DELHI: Armed with hope and a revolutionary poem by noted Punjabi poet Pash , a farmer cycled nearly 400 km from Fardikot to the Tikri border here to join the massive protest by peasants against the new farm laws.
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New Delhi, December 22
Armed with hope and a revolutionary poem by noted Punjabi poet Pash , a farmer cycled nearly 400 km from Faridkot to the Tikri border here to join the massive protest by peasants against the new farm laws.
Wearing a kurta-pyjama with a sleeveless warm jacket and sporting a bright green turban, Pal Sandhu, a resident of Rameana village in Faridkot district of Punjab, on Monday listened intently to the speeches made by farmer leaders at the protest site near the Delhi-Haryana border.
His cycle, a new model decked up with cardboards displaying the poem Sab Ton Khatarnak in Punjabi by Avtar Singh Sandhu or Pash as the revolutionary was famously known, attracted the attention of protesters and passers-by, many of whom took pictures with him.