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Haryana Police Use Tear Gas at Shambhu Border Amid Farmers’ Protest

The Haryana police issued a warning on Wednesday, stating that “you may be held criminally liable” for the owners of bulldozers and earthmoving equipment participating in the farmers’ protest at the Sambhu border. The police stated that using these devices to damage security personnel is a crime for which there is no bail for X. Please do not lend our equipment’s services to protestors, owners, and operators of Poclains and JCCs. Please remove these devices from the protest location. It said, “These machines may be used to harm security forces; this is an offense for which there is no bail, and you may face criminal penalties.”

Returned with modified JCB equipment, earthmovers, bulldozers, and makeshift gas masks, the farmers were stopped by the police a few days earlier with barricades and tear gear shells. Reportedly, the administration has also made appropriate arrangements. To prevent the farmers from forcing their way into the nation’s capital, they have positioned concrete-reinforced boulders and packed buses, trucks, and shipping containers. To oppose the farmers, the police have also sent bulldozers. “Our foremost leaders will advance, and the world will witness our peaceful progress. The government is free to murder farmers if it believes that doing so will solve their issues. However, we’ll keep going forward peacefully,” farmers’ leader Sarwan Singh Pandher declared. He added that the administration will be held accountable if there is any violence.

“We’re going to calmly carry out our ‘Delhi Chalo’ march. If there is any violence, the government will be held accountable,” he declared. On Tuesday, the high court for Punjab and Haryana chastised protesting farmers who were camped out at the Shambhu border with hundreds of tractors and declared that tractor trolleys were not permitted on public roads. Tractor trolleys are prohibited from being used on highways by the Motor Vehicle Act. “Everyone knows about rights, but there are constitutional duties” as well, the bench said, pointing out that “you are traveling from Amritsar to Delhi on trolleys.”

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Bulldozers could be dangerous, so the Haryana Police encouraged their Punjabi colleagues on Tuesday to seize them. Farmers have been demonstrating in favor of a legislative assurance of MSP for all crops. The Center’s proposal to provide MSP on specific commodities for the ensuing five years was turned down by the protesting farmers on Monday. At the Shambhu border, there are an estimated 14,000 farmers, 1200 tractors, and 300 automobiles, according to estimates from the central government.