New Delhi: Singhu border, the epicentre of farmers protest witnessed clashes on Friday as a group of over 200 people hurled stones and vandalised tents erected by farmers at the Delhi-Haryana border. Two police personnel were injured.
Alipur Station House Officer (SHO) Pradeep Paliwal was injured in the clashes that broke out between farmers and locals. He was attacked by sword by one of the protestors.
Locals started stone-pelting in the area following which the police had to resort to lathi-charge and fire tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.
Some people were seen raising slogans against farmers and asked them to vacate the protest site.
The locals were protesting against the farmers demanding the site be vacated. They also raised slogans like –” Khalistan Murdabad”, “Tirange ka apmaan nahi sahega Hindustan” (India will not tolerate the insult of the flag). They were also holding placards with the same slogans.
Security has been heightened at the Singhu border (Delhi-Haryana border).
This comes three days after the violence that broke out during the farmers’ tractor rally on the occasion of Republic Day. On January 26, protestors broke barricades to enter Delhi and indulged in vandalism across several parts of the national capital during their tractor rally organised to protest against the Centre’s three new farm laws.
