Farmers ordered to vacate Ghazipur protest site

January 28, 2021 19:32

The Ghaziabad District Administration has ordered anti-farm laws protestors at Ghazipur (Delhi-Ghaziabad border) to vacate the area by late Thursday evening, official sources said.

The administration said if protestors do not act as per order then they will be forcefully evacuated by night, they added.

The police have been deployed at the protest site.

Delhi Traffic Police informed that the Ghazipur border is closed on both sides.

'Traffic is diverted from Road no 56, Akshardham and Nizammudin Khatta. Please avoid NH 9 and NH 24 and take an alternate route via Chilla, DND, Apsara, Bhopra and Loni borders,' police said in a tweet.

Earlier in the day, Uttar Pradesh Police personnel conducted a flag march at the Ghazipur border.

Ghazipur is one of the sites where protests against the central farm laws are going on for nearly two months.

This comes after violence broke out in the national capital on January 26 during the farmers' tractor rally.

Several public and private properties were damaged in acts of vandalism by the protestors.

A total of 394 police personnel sustained injuries in the violence and several of them are still admitted to hospitals.

Nineteen people have been arrested so far and over 25 criminal cases registered by Delhi Police in connection with the violence that broke out during the farmers' tractor march on Tuesday, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava had said.

Prashant Kumar, Additional Director General (Law and Order) said the police personnel have been deployed at UP gate to look that 'anti-national elements' do not infiltrate the protests. -- ANI

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