Police release farm leaders detained over call for meeting at Ambala City grain market

Ambala, July 17

The police on Wednesday detained some farmer leaders, including BKU (SBS) president Amarjeet Singh Mohri and Ranjeet Singh Raju, who had given a call for holding a meeting at Ambala City grain market.

Later, the farmer leaders were released by the police and they went back to Shambhu.

Farmer leaders had also said that they would gherao the office of the Ambala Superintendent of Police on Wednesday to protest against farm activist Navdeep Singh’s arrest. However, they changed the plan after his release but decided to continue with the holding of meeting at the grain market.

Singh, a native of Jalbera village near Ambala, became famous as the “water cannon man” for climbing atop a police water cannon in November 2020 during the farmers’ agitation against the now-repealed farm laws.

Meanwhile, demanding release of detained farmer leaders, farm activists led by Sarwan Singh Pandher staged a dharna on the Hisar road. The farmers were on their way from Punjab to Ambala City grain market, but the police installed barricades on the Hisar road to stop them.