New Delhi: Delhi Police will remove several barricade layers at three farmers’ protest sites gradually depending on the movement of protesters who will begin to return home from December 11, officials said on Friday.
Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella 40 agricultural union, has been on Thursday decided to suspend the movement against agricultural law and announce that farmers camped at three border points Delhi – Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur – will go back home.
The announcement occurred after SKM, which was the end of the movement, received a letter signed by the central government where he agreed to consider the demands of pending farmers, including withdrawal of cases against farmers and to form a committee for the minimum support price (MSP) for their plants.
According to Delhi police, security has been tightened on protest sites in an effort to maintain a watch on the movement of farmers.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer North) Bijendra Kumar Yadav said the farmers officially stated that they would begin to return home from Saturday and so on, but it was not a time sport bound when their movements would continue to walk all day.
“Based on the movement of the number of farmers who are quite large, various types of barricades, including cement shirts, will be deleted simultaneously.
The police will also begin to be processed in processed,” he said.
The temporary structure made for house police personnel will also be removed in the end, officials said.
On the border of Tikri in Outer Delhi, the barricade put on one side of the road on Rohtak Road removed in October to allow traffic movements, a senior officer said.
On the other hand from the carriageway where farmers were restless, the accommodation was temporarily dismantled by protesters when they prepared to go home, he added.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer) Parvinder Singh said, “We are watching activities (farmers) with keenness and our troops are alert to ensure no unwanted incidents.” At the location of the anti-agricultural law protest at Ghazipur on the border of Delhi-Uttar Pradesh, police Delhi in October removed the barricade and concert cable.
Some layers of iron and cement barricades and at least five layers of Concertina cable were installed last year.
The blockade is increasingly strengthened after violence January 26 in several parts of the national capital during the farmer tractor rally.
“The process of releasing the barricade on the NH-9 (Rohtak-Delhi Highway) was carried out to facilitate the movement of vehicles in October this year but we still installed moving barricades that would be removed in the end with the farmer’s movement to their destination to be carried out in stages,” said an officer Senior police from the Eastern District.
Barrikade to go gradually: Officials
