Ambala youth who climbed atop police van to close water cannon charged with attempt to murder, rioting
FirstpostViral photos of Navdeep Singh climbing atop a police water cannon van to turn it off at a protest site in Ambala, Haryana, has become the symbol of the farmer’s protest against three farm laws A youth from Ambala, whose video and photos of jumping onto a police van to turn off the water cannon that was being blasted at farmers marching towards Delhi went viral, has been booked with an attempt to murder and rioting, reports said. According to a report in The Times of India, the protester identified as Navdeep Singh has been “booked under charges of the attempt to murder, rioting, and violation of Covid-19 norms and made a co-accused with Bharatiya Kisan Union Haryana state president Gurnam Singh Charuni and others”. Singh, who was protesting with farmers from over 250 villages, was quoted by The Quint as telling local news channels channel that the bravery shown by farmers gave him the “courage to climb up the police van and turn of the water cannon”. However, after hours of a standoff that saw police using teargas shells, water cannons, and multi-layer barriers to block the protesters and the farmers pelting stones and breaking barricades in some places in their determination to push through as part of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march.