New Delhi: Agitated mobs today charged on the farmer protest site at Singhu border and threw stones and vandalised tents erected by farmers there.
According to reports, a police official was injured during the violence. The sudden violence this afternoon at the protest site, which has been tense since the Republic Day violence, prompted the police to use tear gas shells and resort to lathi-charge. Farmers too appealed for calm.
It is unclear how the large group of people managed to enter the site of the farmers’ protest despite the area being blocked by the police.
The people who entered the protest site also tried to vandalise other infrastructure such as farmers’ washing machines, demanding that the farmers vacate the protest site. Both sides threw stones at each other.
More details are awaited.