The Delhi Police on Wednesday has issued notices to at least 20 farmers’ leaders including Swaraj India president Yogendra Yadav and Darshan Pal who heads the Krantikari Kisan Union and is a member of the umbrella body Samyukt Kisan Morcha, for breaching the agreement with police regarding the tractor rally on Republic Day and have asked them to reply within three days.
The Delhi police have termed Red Fort violence and vandalism as “most deplorable and anti-national act”.
Rakesh Tikait, Medha Patkar, Gurnam Singh Chanduni, Kulwant Singh Sandhu, Satnam Singh Pannu, Joginder Singh Ugraha, Surjeet Singh Phool, Jagjeet Singh Dalewal, Balbir Singh Rajewal and Harinder Singh Lakhoval, Baldev Singh Sirsa and Balbir S Rajewal among others, are the leaders to whom the notice has been sent.
The notice also cites violations of conditions set for the tractor parade.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Chinmoy Biswal on Wednesday had sent a notice to Darshan Pal asking him why action should not be taken against him and his allies for breaking the agreement over the mutually decided routes to be followed during the tractor march and for the violence that happened on R-Day.
Farmers leaders have acted irresponsibly and broken the decided terms and conditions for the rally, wrote Biswal.
What Delhi Police commissioner SN Shrivastava said?
On Wednesday, Delhi Police commissioner SN Shrivastava during a press conference stated that the farmer leaders involved in the R-Day mayhem will not be spared.
In the notice, the farmer leaders have also been asked to name those perpetrators from their organisations who were a part of the violence during the tractor rally.
Stressing that not a single life was lost as the Delhi Police showed extreme restraint, the Delhi Police Commissioner said the Delhi police dealt with the situation sensibly that is why no one got killed.
The Commissioner said that by far over 25 criminal cases have been filed and 19 arrests have been made, adding that the tractor march violence will be investigated by a joint team of CBI, special cell and district units of Delhi Police.
Protestors unleashed mayhem in Delhi as they deviated from planned routes, attacked police, overturned vehicles, vandalised private and public properties, broke barricades, seized Red Fort and hoisted the religious flag.
Following the violence, two Kisan organisations have withdrawn its protest claiming they have nothing to do with the ruckus.
While Farmers' unions have also cancelled their proposed barefoot march towards Parliament march on February 1.