1000s of farmers reach Hisar to protest against FIR against around 350 of them
Thousands of farmers reached Hisar on Monday responding to their leaders’ calls to protest against the registration of a legal case against a number of of them throughout their conflict with police final week after the inauguration of a Covid hospital right here. The Haryana police had lodged a legal case against around 350 unnamed farmers for allegedly attacking authorities staff and stone-pelting throughout the protest against Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar shortly after he inaugurated a Covid hospital there final week.
The farmers, who reached right here from Hisar and lots of adjoining districts together with Jind, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Karnal and Sonipat, gathered at Krantiman Park to demand the withdrawal of the case, lodged beneath the assorted heinous part, together with the try to homicide against farmers.
Several farmer leaders, together with Rakesh Tikait, Joginder Singh Ugrahan and Gurnam Singh Chaduni additionally reached Hisar.
As some farmer leaders had been addressing the protesters right here, the Hisar sub-divisional Justice of the Peace approached them, inviting them for talks with the administration.
Responding to the invite, Tikait, Chaduni and different farmer leaders reached the district’s mini secretariat for talks.
Talking to reporters earlier, farmer leaders demanded the quashing of the case against farmers.
Referring to the May 16 incident right here, Tikait stated senior police officers had assured that no case can be registered against farmers, however they went again on their phrases later.
After the registration of a case against them after the May 16 incident, farmer organisations had stated they’d gherao the Hisar police commissionerate on Monday to demand the withdrawal of the case and motion against police personnel who allegedly lathi-charged them.
Farmers reached Hisar on Monday by buses, tractor-trolleys and different autos, main to varied roads within the metropolis getting blocked throughout their arrival.
Ahead of farmers descending upon town on Monday, Hisar was changed into a fortress with multi-layered safety cordons thrown around very important installations like mini-secretariat, workplaces and residences of senior authorities and police officers within the metropolis on Sunday.
The administration had deployed a big quantity of police personnel, together with these from the Rapid Action Force (RAF), to cope with any untoward incident at varied locations within the metropolis, police sources stated.
A big quantity of farmers, together with some girls too, started arriving at Krantiman Park from the Monday morning itself.
Waving tricolours and their union flags, farmers additionally raised slogans against the federal government and the three central farm legal guidelines.
The district administration earlier on Sunday too had appealed to farmers to come ahead for talks, shunning demonstration amid the grim pandemic.
Twenty policemen had been injured within the conflict between the farmers and police on May 16.
The police had on Thursday clarified that solely tear gasoline was used first after which a light power was used on the Justice of the Peace’s order to defend the hospital from sabotage and to keep legislation and order.
