Bastara toll plaza violence case: Government didn't take report, says Justice SN Aggarwal

Chandigarh, January 17

Justice SN Aggarwal (retd), who was conducting an inquiry into the Bastara toll plaza violence case, today said his report was ready, but the government hadn’t taken it.

The commission was set up on September 25, 2021, to ascertain why the lathicharge had taken place at the Bastara toll plaza on August 28. It also had to look into utterances of IAS officer Ayush Sinha, who had allegedly instructed the police to “break the heads of farmers”.

Sinha was caught on tape while telling personnel to “break the heads” of protesting farmers if they breached the barricades near the spot where a BJP event was taking place in Karnal.

Justice Aggarwal said probably there had been an agreement between farmers and the government over taking back all cases from both sides, which is why his report was not accepted.