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In photos: Jagjit Dallewal taken to PWD rest house in Jalandhar, refuses hospitalisation

Dallewal was detained in Mohali on Wednesday evening while returning from a meeting with a central delegation when Punjab Police began evicting protesting farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri border points, which have been closed for more than a year
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Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal was taken to the PWD rest house in Jalandhar on Thursday after he refused to be admitted to a hospital.

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Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh

Dallewal was detained in Mohali on Wednesday evening while returning from a meeting with a central delegation when Punjab Police began evicting protesting farmers from the Shambhu and Khanauri border points, which have been closed for more than a year.

Sarwan Singh Pandher was also detained.

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Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh

In Chandigarh, the fresh round of talks between farmer leaders and a central delegation to discuss various farmer demands remained inconclusive. Police personnel could be seen dismantling the stages at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points.

Tribune Photo: Malkiat Singh

At the Shambhu protest sites, police deployed JCB machines to remove the structures set up by farmers.

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Many tractor-trolleys and other vehicles of protesting farmers could be seen standing on the road. Earlier, farmers at the Khanauri border point held a protest against police action against farmer leaders. They raised slogans against the Punjab government.

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