A day after deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Rahul Bhardwaj and his gunman Jaswinder Singh had been attacked by farm union protesters at Jeond village in Bathinda district, a case of try to homicide and abduction was registered in opposition to 11 Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) leaders, together with president Joginder Singh Ugrahan, official sources mentioned on Tuesday.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) president Joginder Singh Ugrahan addressing protesters at Jeond village in Bathinda district on Monday. (Sanjeev Kumar/HT)
Two first info studies (FIRs) had been registered at Sadar Rampura police station on Monday night after the DSP was hospitalised with a fracture in his left arm.
No arrest has been made to date.
The activists, led by Ugrahan and his deputy Jhanda Singh Jethuke, clashed with the police whereas obstructing the land demarcation train being undertaken on Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom orders. They had been booked for try to homicide, abduction and different prison offences.
The excessive courtroom has requested the district administration to finish the train by January-end to settle a 70-year-old dispute between landowners and cultivator tenants. The battle is over the possession of almost 9,000 acres. The unique homeowners, who had relinquished management to cultivators a long time in the past, have demanded one-third share of the landholding. Their declare was upheld by the excessive courtroom and later the Supreme Court docket. The cultivators, backed by the farm union, need to retain full possession. Citing a 2005 state authorities modification that helps possession rights for cultivators, Jethuke mentioned: “We want those who have tilled the land for almost a century to be declared the rightful owners.”
Tractor-trolley filled with stones at protest website
In his criticism, Bhardwaj mentioned that the activists had blocked the highway to Jeond to forestall income officers from reaching the village for the land demarcation. He mentioned he noticed a tractor-trolley filled with bricks and stones and requested the protesters to clear the highway. Agitated, they attacked him with lathis. His gunman was injured whereas attempting to guard him.
The BKU leaders had been booked underneath Sections 109 (try to homicide), 132 (assault or prison pressure to discourage public servant from discharge of obligation) and 285 (obstruction in public method) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Income officers threatened
The second FIR was registered in opposition to Ugrahan, Jethuke, Bant Singh and three others for holding 4 income officers hostage.
The criticism was lodged by Gurlal Singh, who works on contract with the income division after retiring as a patwari. Gurlal recognized the accused obstructing him and others from discharging their obligation. He mentioned that three of his colleagues and he had been prevented from finishing the land consolidation work on courtroom orders and had been bundled right into a car of a BKU activist. They had been taken to the village gurdwara on the course of the farm union leaders, who even snatched their cellphones. Gurlal mentioned they had been threatened and let off.
The union activists are tenting at Jeond after BKU common secretary Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan introduced a ‘pucca morcha (long protest)’ to foil any try by the district authorities to undertake land demarcation.