Protesting Farmer Dies In Delhi; Farmers Allege He Was Shot, Police Say His Tractor Overturned
A group of farmers is holding a sit-in demonstration at Delhi's ITO with the body of a protester who they said was shot dead by the police during the violent clashes that broke out.
A group of farmers is holding a sit-in demonstration at Delhi's ITO with the body of a protester who they said was shot dead by the police during the violent clashes that broke out.
The deceased has been identified as Navneet Singh, a 24-year-old from Western Uttar Pradesh.
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However, according to the police, Singh was driving one of the tractors that had charged at them from the protesters and he died after his vehicle overturned.
The farmers reject this claim and allege that Singh has been shot in the head.
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¡ª Saif Jafri (@saif_jafri_) January 26, 2021
At ITO, a person named Navneet has died after being shot.
The anger of the farmers is increasing.
Govt should repeal the laws.
No postpone, no change just repeal #HistoricTractorMarch#KisanTractorRally#kisanandolan #FarmersProtest pic.twitter.com/9D4t04BQqL
Tragic update ¡ª
¡ª Sikh Siyasat News (@sikhsiyasat) January 26, 2021
Farmer killed after shot at at ITO. Tractor rolled over. Death, Location and Shooting confirmed in Indian Express report also. pic.twitter.com/8weVrR4duJ
This comes even as the unprecedented scenes are unfolding in the national capital on the day India marked 72nd Republic Day.
The farmers who had been protesting at the borders of Delhi for nearly two months were supposed to take out tractors rallies from the three borders in the afternoon.
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However, the rally got off to a chaotic start with the farmers clashing with the police and deviating from the routes that were previously agreed for the march.
The Delhi Police had given permission to farmers protesting the three farm laws to hold their tractor parade on selected routes only after the official Republic Day parade on the Rajpath concludes.
But chaos ensued as the farmers were adamant about heading towards central Delhi.
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Protesting farmers clashed with police at several places in the national capital and entered the iconic Red Fort and ITO in the heart of the city.
Chaotic scenes were witnessed at ITO, where hundreds of protesters could be seen chasing police personnel with sticks and ramming their tractors into the buses parked by police.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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