Farmers Movement Archive

Four FIRs day after farmers & cops clash

KURUKSHETRA: A day after police and protesting farmers at Krukshetra’s Pipli town clashed during an agitation against three agriculture ordinances passed by the Centre, district police on Friday registered four cases against farmers and BKU leaders. Police have booked farmers for allegedly attempting to murder Shahabad sub-division magistrate (SDM), violating Covid-19 norms, pelting stones at police, rioting, blocking National Highway (NH) 44, causing damage to public property, violation of prohibitory orders imposed by the Kurukshetra district administration, and others. Three cases have been registered at Thanesar Sadar police station, while the attempt to murder case has been registered at Shahabad Markanda police station. In Shahabad, police station house officer (SHO) inspector Devender Kumar lodged a complaint against BKU Haryana state president Gurnam Singh Charuni, BKU media coordinator Rakesh Kumar Bains, BKU functionaries Jasbir Singh and Pankaj Hanaba, alleging that they disobeyed administrative orders and attempted to murder Shahabad SDM Kiran. SHO Devender stated to police, “Gurnam Singh Charuni, BKU Haryana president, organised a rally at Pipli, Kurukshetra on September 10, 2020. In view of the Covid-19 outbreak, the administration had imposed a ban on holding such a rally and Kurukshetra DC imposed Section 144. Despite this, Charuni announced publicly to reach the rally venue. Charuni released different videos on Facebook and WhatsApp, and announced to break police barricades and reach the rally venue.” “About 11 am on Thursday, my team was present at overbridge on GT Road near Sharifgarh village. SDM Shahabad Kiran, Shahabad tehsildar T R Gautam, Shahabad SEPO Shyam Lal, and Shahabad MC secretary Surinder Malik also came to the spot. We were talking to each other when, suddenly, due to instigation by Charuni, Bains, Habana and 100/150 farmers came there on tractortrollies, motorcycles, and cars. SDM tried to pacify them, but they did not listen and continued to march to Pipli .

The Times of India

2020-09-12

Chandigarh