Police on Tuesday arrested greater than 160 protesting farmers in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a day after they paused their march to Delhi over a slew of calls for, together with MSP. Bharatiya Kisan Parishad Sukhbir Khalifa was additionally arrested. The farmers had been holding a sit-in on the ‘Dalit Prerna Sthal’ in Noida as they weren’t allowed to maneuver in direction of the nationwide capital.
Earlier on Monday, farmers from completely different elements of Uttar Pradesh arrived in Noida on the decision of Samyukta Kisan Morcha.
They’d threatened to renew their march to the nationwide capital if their calls for weren’t met inside seven days.
Police arrested greater than 160 protesters at round 1.30 pm below Part 170 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), stated Further Commissioner of Police (Regulation and Order) Shiv Hari Meena, including the availability permits the police to arrest to stop the fee of a cognisable offence.
Tikait calls panchayat in Muzaffarnagar
The Bharatiya Kisan Union led by Naresh Tikait referred to as a panchayat in Muzaffarnagar, slamming the arrest of farmers in Noida. We’ll proceed to battle for his or her “simply calls for”, stated Khalifa.
In response to the police, among the many arrested had been ladies and several other farmer leaders like Khalifa and Pawan Khatana the state president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (Western Uttar Pradesh). The protesters had been taken to the Luksar jail in Noida.
The farmers had gathered close to the Mahamaya flyover and left for Delhi on Monday demanding correct compensation for his or her land acquired by the federal government, however had been stopped by the police close to Dalit Prerna Sthal, after which they sat on dharna there.
Large visitors snarls had induced inconvenience to commuters crossing the Delhi-Noida border as police had arrange a number of layers of barricades and deployed heavy safety to cease the march, which coincided with Parliament’s Winter Session.
(With PTI inputs)