In a big motion in opposition to the continuing farmers’ protest, the Haryana Police has determined to cancel the passports and visas of these protesters concerned in violence and broken public properties alongside the Punjab-Haryana border.

Deputy superintendent of police, Ambala, Joginder Sharma stated the cops have recognized these concerned in violence coming to Haryana from Punjab in the name of farmers’ protest.

“We have identified them with CCTV and drone cameras. We will request the ministry of home affairs and the embassy to cancel their visas and passports… Their photos, name and address will be given to the passport office. We are working on cancelling their passports…,” Joginder Sharma stated in a video assertion.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha are spearheading the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to press the federal government to simply accept their calls for, together with a authorized assure of minimal assist worth (MSP) for crops and a farm mortgage waiver.

The Punjab farmers are additionally demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s suggestions, pension for farmers and farm labourers, no hike in electrical energy tariff, withdrawal of police circumstances and “justice” for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the households of the farmers who died throughout a earlier agitation in 2020-21.

On February 13, protesting farmers reportedly broken multi-layer barricades put up by the police to cease them on the border, by eradicating cement and barbed wire fencing with tractors. The farmers have been making an attempt to interrupt the barricades to cross the Shambhu border to enter Haryana from Punjab and head to Delhi.

Even as tear fuel shells have been dropped through drone and water cannons have been used to discourage the protestors from breaching the police bandobast, the farmers have been seen forcibly making an attempt to interrupt the barricades. The farmers additionally vandalised limitations on the Haryana-Punjab border at Moonak in Sangrur.

On February 23, as recent clashes broke out, the Haryana Police used tear fuel to disperse protesting farmers heading in direction of Khanauri on Punjab’s border with the state. The Haryana Police additionally stated it was withdrawing its earlier resolution to invoke provisions of the National Security Act (NSA) in opposition to some farmer leaders who’re part of the continuing farmers’ agitation.

The protesting farmers asserted that the cremation of Shubhkaran Singh, who died days in the past, wouldn’t happen until the Punjab authorities registers a case in opposition to these accountable for it. Amid the standoff, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann introduced compensation for Singh who died on the Khanauri border.

Punjab Police registers homicide case in farmer’s dying

Seven days after the dying of Shubhkaran Singh throughout clashes between protesting farmers and Haryana safety personnel on the Khanauri border level, the Punjab Police on Wednesday evening registered a case of homicide.

Shubhkaran (21), a local of Bathinda, was killed and 12 safety personnel have been injured in clashes at Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border on February 21. The incident occurred when some protesting farmers have been making an attempt to move in direction of police barricades, put as much as halt their “Delhi Chalo” march.

The Punjab Police has registered a case below sections 302 (homicide) and 114 (abettor current when offence is dedicated) of the Indian Penal Code on the Patran Police station in Patiala.