We weren't using force against farmers: Del police

January 27, 2021 12:35

ANI tweets this image of an injured cop who was hospitalised after the violence and clashes between the protesting farmers and the police. PC Yadav, a policemen who was on duty at Red Fort told ANI, "I was taking an injured colleague who had been hit very brutally, as we moving out we were beaten too. We were not using force because they were farmers. We were only trying to stop their movement forward."

The Samkyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of 41 farmer unions, is leading the protest against the three central farm laws at several border points of Delhi.

The Kisan Morcha has disassociated itself from those who indulged in violence during the tractor parade and alleged that some "antisocial elements" infiltrated their otherwise peaceful movement.

It has called a meeting later on Wednesday to discuss the violence that broke out during the farmers' tractor parade in the national capital.

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