Security Tightened At Shambhu, Khanauri Borders; Concrete Barricades Razed After Farmers' Eviction — Updates

Amid the action by police authorities, several farmer leaders including Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal were detained in Mohali while returning from a meeting with a central delegation.

Security has been beefed up at Punjab-Haryana Khanauri border after the farmers were removed from the protest sites.

Source : X@ANI

Security has been heightened at the Shambhu border and Khanauri border on Thursday morning after the Punjab Police evicted farmers from the protest sites on Wednesday evening. The authorities also began removing concrete barricades erected at Haryana - Punjab Shambhu Border to restrict farmers' movement further from where they were sitting on a protest over various demands.  

The protest sites were cleared after dismantling temporary structures and stages, and the trolleys and other vehicles stationed by the farmers for over a year were also removed on Wednesday.

Amid the action by police authorities, several farmer leaders including Sarwan Singh Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal were detained in Mohali while returning from a meeting with a central delegation.

Here are the top updates:

• Security was strengthened at the Khanauri and Shambhu protest sites at the Haryana-Punjab border after police's action against the protesting farmers.

#WATCH | Punjab: Security strengthened at Punjab-Haryana Khanauri Border

Yesterday, late in the evening, Punjab police removed the farmers from the protesting site, temporary structures erected by them were also removed pic.twitter.com/VNYb6RQJ3F

— ANI (@ANI) March 20, 2025

#WATCH | Security heightened at Haryana - Punjab Shambhu Border as Haryana Police remove concrete barricades erected at the border to restrict farmers' movement further from where they were sitting on a protest over various demands.

Yesterday, late in the evening, Punjab… pic.twitter.com/CqWR4Rtlyi

— ANI (@ANI) March 20, 2025

• Meanwhile, the Haryana Police used bulldozers to remove concrete barricades erected at Haryana - Punjab Shambhu Border after the famers were evicted on Wednesday from the protest sites. These barricades had been set up to restrict farmers' movement further from where they were sitting on a protest over various demands.  

#WATCH | Haryana Police uses bulldozers to remove concrete barricades erected at Haryana - Punjab Shambhu Border to restrict farmers' movement further from where they were sitting on a protest over various demands.

Yesterday, late in the evening, Punjab police removed the… pic.twitter.com/K7QdJWpbLi

— ANI (@ANI) March 20, 2025

• Farmers' tents continued to be dismantled as protestors were seen collecting their belongings from the protest site.
  
  

  Shambhu Border: Amid the ongoing farmers' protest, farmers' tents are being dismantled, and protesters are seen collecting their belongings pic.twitter.com/ViJvZxA9zJ

  — IANS (@ians_india) March 20, 2025

• This action comes after the Punjab police evicted farmers from the protest sites on Wednesday evening and the detention of various farm leaders. The temporary structures erected by farmers at the protest sites were also removed.
  
  
• Several farmer leaders including farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on an indefinite fast, and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha leader Sarvan Singh Pandher were detained by the police.
  
  
• Meanwhile, farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal is being shifted from Punjab Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Jalandhar to an undisclosed location. Earlier today, police force was deployed outside PIMS Hospital following his hospitalisation.

Jalandhar, Punjab: Police force has been deployed outside PIMS Hospital following the hospitalization of farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal pic.twitter.com/agPYGVayPE

— IANS (@ians_india) March 20, 2025

• Farmer leader Guramneet Singh Mangat said the farmer leaders were detained in Mohali while they were headed to the Shambhu protest site following their meeting in Chandigarh with the delegation led by Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, PTI reported. 
  
  
• The BJP criticised the police action, alleging that the AAP government was trying to sabotage the talks with the centre. Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema justified the farmers' eviction, saying industries and businesses were affected due to the prolonged closure of two highways, which are the lifelines of the state.
  
  
• The protesting farmers said protesting farmers said that the action taken by the government is "very wrong". "We were not informed about anything, they just came unannounced. What Bhagwant Mann government has done is not right. The 'morcha' will continue," they said.