The Delhi Police ensured tight security arrangements this time, recalling logistics from the 2020 protests to manage the situation effectively.
Two farmers from Punjab were killed in a road accident on Saturday in Haryana's Hisar district while they were returning from the protest site at Tikri border, police said.
Farmers, who have been protesting against the three farm laws on different borders of Delhi since November 26 last year, announced on Wednesday that they are suspending their year-long agitation and would vacate the protest sites on December 11.
The farmers have agreed to allow only two-wheelers and ambulances at the Tikri border, where the police removed the barricading which was in place for the last 11 months in view of farmers' protest. They have also agreed that border will open only from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm.
Four out of the eight layers of barricades at Tikri border have been removed. However, the cement barricades are still there and road remains closed for commuters.
Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and elsewhere have been sitting at Delhi's borders for nearly 10 months demanding the repeal of the laws.
A man was burnt to death allegedly by a group of farmers protesting against the farm laws near Tikri border in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh on Wednesday. One of the accused, Krishan, has been arrested.
In an exclusive conversation with IndiaTV, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij spoke on the death of a 42-year-old man who died of burn injuries after four men allegedly sprinkled some inflammable material on him and set him ablaze at Tikri protest site.
A Haryana man died of burn injuries after four men at Tikri border, farmers' protest site, sprinkled inflammable material over him and set him afire.
A Haryana man died of burn injuries after four men at Tikri border, farmers' protest site, sprinkled inflammable material over him and set him afire.
In order to deal with the scorching summer heat, on the 106th day of their agitation, farmers have started building 'pucca' houses (permanent structures made of bricks) at the Singhu border.
According to police sources, apart from Shantanu Muluk, several other activists were present in Delhi on January 26 when the Red Fort violence broke out during the farmers' tractor rally.
Delhi Police said the police personnel has received multiple stitches and an FIR has been registered against an unknown person in this regard.
A farmer from Jind in Haryana who was supporting the agitation against the Centre's farm laws allegedly hanged himself from a tree merely two kilometres from the Tikri border protest site on Sunday, police said.
On Monday, farmers had announced a countrywide 'chakka jam', for which heavy police personnel were deployed across Delhi-NCR including Shahjahanpur (Delhi-Rajasthan) border.
Security was on Monday, 1 February, beefed up at the three borders of Delhi- Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri -- and barricades, boulders, and barbed wires have come up as additional forces made their way there as the farmers continue their agitation against the Centre’s three contentious new farm laws.
Thousands of protesting farmers had clashed with the police during the tractor rally in Delhi called by farmer unions on January 26 to highlight their demand for the repeal of the Centre's three farm laws.
Earlier on Friday, the Haryana government had ordered the suspension of mobile internet services in 14 more districts of the state till 5 pm of January 30 to prevent any disturbance of peace and public order, in the wake of the farmers' agitation against the three agriculture laws.
The farmer leaders have asserted that the number of agitators at all the prominent protest venues - Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri - is swelling after the police allegedly tried to remove farmer leader Rakesh Tikait from the Ghazipur border on Thursday night.
In the view of ongoing farmers' protest at the Delhi borders, Additional security has been deployed at several locations of protest site.
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