Crackdown on farmers backing Lakhbir Singh’s family

New Delhi, October 27

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The Delhi Police launched a late-evening crackdown on hundreds of farmers gathered at Narela near the Singhu border here to support the family of Lakhbir Singh, recently killed by a Nihang.

Several protesters, belonging to Muzaffarnagar-based Hind Mazdoor Kisan Samiti, were reportedly injured and several taken into preventive detention by cops, who lathicharged the farmers after they insisted on performing a ritual at the site where Lakhbir was killed recently.

The farmers had gathered in solidarity with Lakhbir’s family, which was also present at Singhu today to perform havan. On the behalf of the family, which belongs to Punjab, samiti members, demanded Rs 50 lakh compensation and a government job for the deceased’s kin.

The agitating group, which clashed with the cops, said if the Punjab Government could give relief to the deceased farmers of Lakhimpur Kheri, why not to the farmer who belonged to Punjab and was “subjected to untold torture before being killed”?

Lakhbir’s family also sought justice and support from the Punjab Government. — TNS

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