Several farmer leaders allege detention, cops deny charge
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Several farmer leaders allege detention, cops deny charge
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Meerut: As hundreds of farmers from several western UP districts took out tractor marches to the national capital to join protests against the three farm laws, police swung in action and allegedly kept several union leaders under house arrest.A video of Bulandshahr circle officer (City) Sangram Singh involved in a heated argument with a farmer leader on a tractor has also surfaced. Policemen at the spot can be seen stopping the tractor in the middle of the road and asking BKU leader Mangeram Tyagi driving the tractor to park it on the side of the road. “Had many tractors reached there (Delhi), it would have created chaos. Many (farmers) were stopped after establishing dialogue. Had we not stopped them, 10-15,000 tractors would have reached there from Bulandshahr alone. No force was used to stop them,” said Santosh Kumar, Bulandshahr’s senior superintendent of police.Senior officials in the region rejected claims of house arrest of leaders. “We had spoken to all the leaders. We did not keep anyone in house arrest, instead we facilitated their movement,” said Praveen Kumar, inspector general, Meerut range.ReplyReply allForward
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The Times of India
Date
2021-01-08
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Meerut