Chandigarh: Police Sirsa on Thursday arrested five after staying, which included the sighthous costs, on suspicion attacks on the car representative Haryana during farmers’ protests.
The incident has occurred on Sundays and the police have ordered more than 100 people, mostly unknown, for incitement, blocking public servants in terminating their duties, attempts to assassinate the elected public representatives and damage public property.
Meanwhile, to protest the arrest, a group of farmers sitting in Dharna near Baba Bhuman Shah Ji Chowk in Sanda, demanding that they be released.
The police, however, said the arrest was carried out after they were identified based on video recordings of the incident.
“Five protesters have been captured.
We analyzed video recordings from the incident in the last two days.
The images were enlarged and then based on evidence, five identified were arrested,” SANSA Police Inspector Dr.
Arpit Jain told PTI by telephone.
He said more people present near locations on Sundays have been identified and further action will depend on the extent to which their involvement.
Previously, the state government had taken a serious view of the incident, replacing the District Police Chief SIRSA Bhupender Singh with Dr.
Arpit Jain while suspending an inspector’s ranking official.
Vice speaker Ranbir Gangwa told reporters here on Tuesday that those who pelted their vehicles with stones on Sundays could not be called farmers.
“They can’t be called farmers.
I can say those who attack look like addicts …” he said.
Farmers carrying black flags have gathered outside the Chaudhary Devi Lal University in Sanda on Sunday during the day and raise the slogan to the government.
While Gangwa, which was BJP MLA from Nalwa in Hisar, left the university after attending a function, the protesters targeted his car, police said.
Despite the heavy police presence, some are managed to surround the vehicle and oppose it with their hands.
Gangwa vehicles thrown with rocks when the police tried to take him out of the area.
Gangwa has escaped to cross the incident, police said.
Farmers who protested the Central Agriculture Act have opposed the BJP Public Function and Janata Janata Party (JJP) in the state.
Farmers, especially from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have camped at the Delhi border for more than seven months in protest against three central agricultural laws.