DGP Punjab acceded to Haryana police chief’s request, issues orders to stop framers moving with heavy machinery
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ February 21,2024
DGP Punjab Gaurav Yadav has issued instructions to all the ADGPs/ IGs/ DIGs of ranges, all commissioners of polices, all SSPs to immediately stop the movement of JCBs, Poclaines, Tippers and other earth moving machines towards the Punjab-Haryana borders at Khanauri and Shambhu by laying nakas, conducting patrolling and other required steps be taken.
DGP Punjab acceded to Haryana police chief’s request, issues orders to stop framers moving with heavy machinery. As farmers are set to march towards New Delhi on Wednesday morning after rejecting the Centre’s five-year MSP proposal, the Haryana police had urged their Punjab counterparts to seize bulldozers and other armour-plated earthmoving equipment at the interstate borders as well as to stop women, children and journalists at least 1 km from the borders.
Haryana DGP SS Kapur forwarded to his Punjab counterpart, Gaurav Yadav, a letter written by IG (Law and Order) HS Doon, “As you are aware, certain farmer unions are protesting and camping at Shambhu border, Ambala, and Datasingh (Khanauri) border, Jind, since February 13, 2024. Credible inputs have been received that the protestors may keep women, children and senior citizens in the front so that the police can be deterred from taking legal action. If farmers resort to forcefully removing the barricades then the police will have no other option but to take legal action against them and this may lead to avoidable risk of injury/hardship to women, children and senior citizens. To avoid such happening, it is requested that the women, children and senior citizens may kindly be stopped at a safe distance (minimum 1 km) from the conflict points on the interstate borders in the interest of their safety,” the letter read.
“In view of the above, you are requested to take all necessary steps to immediately seize these machines from the protesting sites at the borders and take all preventive steps so that the Poclain/JCB machines and other heavy machinery which may cause harm to security forces are not allowed to reach the protesting sites. Further, the owners/operators of such equipment may be strictly warned to not provide the services of their equipment to the protesting farmers as the same would amount to the criminal act and they would be criminally liable for the same. This may please be dealt with on top priority being a matter of utmost urgency,” he further wrote.
