Delhi Police on Thursday elevated safety deployment in any respect border factors connecting neighboring Haryana and Uttar Pradesh after they acquired intelligence that round 50,000 farmers have been planning to enter the nationwide capital. However, farmers’ organizations mentioned there was no such plan.
A senior police officer mentioned that that they had acquired data {that a} farmers’ union had requested farmers to return to Singhu border from Panipat toll plaza, however their poster additionally talked about going to Delhi. “Our personnel are performing their duties round the clock at all border points including protest sites of Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur, but we have strengthened our presence at various border points in view of the call. All internal and external forces have been mobilized to the maximum,” mentioned an official.
Farmers have been protesting on the nationwide capital’s Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders for greater than six months in opposition to three newly enacted agricultural legal guidelines: the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services Act 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
Senior District DCP reviewed all preparations and located that the scenario remained peaceable, however he has been requested to make heavy safety deployment with multi-layered barricades as a precautionary measure. “We have coordinated with them and informed them that action will be taken against those who try to take the law into their own hands,” the official mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
