Haryana Police charged Bharatiya Kisan Union chief Gurnam Singh Charuni and 300 others
Kurukshetra:
The Haryana Police on Friday charged state Bharatiya Kisan Union or BKU chief Gurnam Singh Charuni and 300 unidentified individuals for damaging public property and violating prohibitory orders, a day after farmers clashed with cops throughout a protest in Kurukshetra.
Members of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and different farm our bodies had blocked a nationwide freeway in Kurukshetra’s Pipli and clashed with police whereas protesting towards three Union authorities legislations, which they claimed have been anti-farmer.
Police had resorted to a lathicharge when farmers coming from the Shahbad space pushed their technique to the protest web site. The agitating farmers smashed windowpanes of a hearth brigade automobile and pelted police with stones.
Three separate FIRs have been registered on the Sadar police station in Thanesar.
“These FIRs have been registered towards Gurnam Singh Charuni and a number of other unknown individuals for illegal meeting, inflicting injury to property and stopping authorities staff from performing their responsibility, SHO Naresh Kumar mentioned.
The FIRs additionally embrace prices for the violation of the Nationwide Freeway Act and the Catastrophe Administration Act, he mentioned.
In the meantime, the Shahbad Markanda police lodged circumstances towards 300 unknown individuals.
SHO Devinder Kumar mentioned the try to homicide cost was additionally added to the FIR as many tractor-borne farmers tried to run police personnel manning the boundaries erected to cease them.
The Kurukshetra administration had imposed prohibitory orders after the farmer our bodies gave a protest name within the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nevertheless, farmers belonging to the BKU and different organisations reached Pipli in massive numbers, defying the prohibitory orders.
Prime state Congress leaders, together with AICC spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and state celebration chief Kumari Selja, on Friday expressed solidarity with the farmers.
Farmers in Haryana are demanding a rollback of the Farmers’ Produce Commerce and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance; Farmers (Empowerment and Safety) Settlement on Worth Assurance and Farm Providers Ordinance; and Important Commodities (Modification) Ordinance, enforce by the Centre.
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