The protesters are demanding action on the police lathi charge on August 28
A large number of farmers stood outside the gate of the district headquarters here on September 8 as they stuck to their demand for action against IAS officer Ayush Sinha, who ordered police lathi-charge on a group of farmers last month.
The farmers, who were in a tussle with the Haryana government over the lathi charge, staged a sit-in at the mini-secretariat gate on the evening of 7 September after talks with the local administration failed. Many people spent the night outside the mini secretariat.
The protesters are demanding action on the police lathi charge here on August 28. Their main demand is around Mr Sinha, former SDM of Karnal. He was later transferred in a major bureaucratic reshuffle. The officer, whose suspension is demanding by farmers’ union leaders, was caught on tape allegedly asking policemen to “break their heads” if the protesters crossed the border.
Around 10 protesters were injured in a clash with police as they tried to march towards the venue of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) meeting. Their leaders also claimed that a farmer died later, a charge dismissed by the administration.
‘All night protest’
Several farmers, along with several leaders of the United Kisan Morcha (SKM), spent the night outside the main entrance. Mini Secretariat.
Volunteers were seen making tea and serving breakfast at the dharna site in the morning.
Haryana Bharatiya Kisan Union (Chaduni) chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni told reporters on September 8, “We are not going anywhere from here until our demands are met.”
On Sinha’s demand for suspension, he said, “First of all we are saying that his transfer is not a punishment. [police] to break the head. Is there any law under which such an order can be given?” Traffic movement on Delhi-Karnal-Ambala NH-44 was normal.
security was increased Here on September 6, a day before the farmers mahapanchayatiAnd central forces have been deployed.
NS The siege began on the evening of 7 SeptemberHours later, farmers from Haryana and neighboring states rode on tractors and motorcycles to reach the new grain market in Karnal for the mahapanchayat.
They marched on foot from the Mahapanchayat site to the Mini Secretariat, about five km away.
Protest leaders Rakesh Tikait and Yogendra Yadav are also at the gherao site.
Karnal Deputy Commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav had said on September 7 that the administration has invited farmer leaders for the second round of talks and they are hopeful of a solution to the issue.
The Home Department has extended the suspension of mobile internet services in Karnal till midnight of September 8 as the situation is “still unstable”.
Orders have been issued to ban the assembly of people under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in the district.
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