Delhi Police sends discover to BKU chief Rakesh Tikait put up tractor rally violence

Image Source : PTI BKU chief Rakesh Tikait
Delhi Police has issued a discover to Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait asking him to clarify as to why authorized motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to him for breaching the settlement with police relating to the tractor rally on January 26. Delhi Police has requested him to submit the response inside three days.
“You are also directed to provide names of the perpetrators of such violent acts belonging to your organisation. You are directed to submit your response within three days,” the discover reads.
The police have additionally put up discover exterior Tikait’s tent on the Ghazipur border, the place farmers have been protesting in opposition to the newly enacted farm legal guidelines for over two months.
Tikait had on Wednesday distanced himself from the violence and Red Fort incident throughout farmers’ tractor rally on the Republic Day, stating that “those who created violence and unfurled flags at the fort will have to pay for their deeds.”
Delhi Police has issued notices to at the least 20 farmer leaders on Thursday for breaching the settlement with police relating to the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day. The discover was served by the police to farmer leaders together with Yogendra Yadav, Baldev Singh Sirsa and Balbir S Rajewal and requested them to offer a reply inside three days, knowledgeable Delhi Police.

The developments come a day after Delhi Police registered an FIR at Samaypur Badli police station in opposition to 37 farmer leaders together with Medha Patkar, Buta Singh, Darshan Pal, Rakesh Tikait, Rajinder Singh, Balbir Singh Rajewal and Yogendra Yadav for Tuesday’s violence.
Police mentioned their “preplanned objective of not following the mutually agreed route and the timing of the commencement of the so-called parade’ was to disrupt the Republic Day Parade and the protesters resorted to the above said acts, and their gathering was also in violation of the guidelines in view of COVID-19.”
Nineteen individuals have been to this point arrested and over 25 prison circumstances registered by Delhi Police in reference to the violence that broke out throughout the farmers’ tractor march on Tuesday, Police Commissioner (CP) SN Shrivastava had mentioned on Wednesday including that 394 police personnel sustained accidents within the violence and a number of other of them are nonetheless admitted to hospitals.
Several private and non-private properties had been broken in acts of vandalism by the protestors. A complete of twenty-two FIRs have been filed by the Delhi Police with one in all them mentioning the incident at ITO the place a farmer died after his tractor overturned.
Farmers have been protesting on the completely different borders of the nationwide capital since November 26 in opposition to the three newly enacted farm legal guidelines – Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
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