Police File FIR Against 200 Protesting Farmers For Creating Ruckus At Ghazipur Border

Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) media in-charge Dharmendra Malik said that one-sided police action is an attempt to crush the farmers' protest.

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Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police registered an FIR against 200 protesting farmers on Thursday for allegedly created ruckus at the Ghazipur border and damaged vehicles of BJP workers.

The FIR was registered following the scuffle which broke out between agitating farmers and several Bharatiya Janata Party workers at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Wednesday afternoon. 

The FIR was lodged at the Kaushambi police station of the Trans Hindan area (Sahibabad), City Superintendent of Police (second) Gyanendra Singh said. In a statement, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) media in-charge Dharmendra Malik said that one-sided police action is an attempt to crush the farmers' protest according to a PTI report.

The ruling party workers were carrying out a procession on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway where the protesters, chiefly supporters of the BKU, have been camping since November 2020. Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait in a statement accused some people of hurling abuses, raising BJP flags, and pelting stones at protesters. 

The Ghaziabad police on Thursday evening lodged another FIR in connection with the clash after a complaint by the BKU's district chief Jitendra Singh, Circle Officer Indirapuram Anshu Jain told PTI. The FIR has been lodged at the Kaushambi police station against unknown accused under Indian Penal Code sections 147 (rioting), 323 (causing hurt), 504 (insult to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation), the police said.

As per the PTI report, the FIR accuses BJP workers of instigating the Wednesday clash at the Ghazipur border. Earlier the police were not lodging the FIR because of which several farmers had started demonstrations against the police, according to BKU office bearers. These demonstrations have now been called off as the FIR has been lodged, BKU media in-charge Malik said.

He had earlier warned of protests against police action and gherao of police stations across Uttar Pradesh if cases against farmers were not withdrawn.