Farmer Protest: Supreme Court To Hear A Letter By Punjab University Students As PIL On Police Excesses Against Farmers
Live LawA letter petition has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking an inquiry into alleged Police excesses and illegal detention of protesting farmers near Delhi borders. "After more than two months of peaceful protests in their home states, served with incompatible gestures of Government of India when farmers decided to approach to the National Capital Delhi, the peaceful protestors were thrashed and walloped that it seemed raising voice for the Fundamental Rights as provided by the Supreme Law of the Nation is a dreadful crime," states the letter. It is alleged that the media has polarized the whole peaceful movement by associating it with separatism and the Delhi Police has employed illegitimate use of water cannons, tear gases shells and lathis, and has even proceeded to "jail" some of the farmers, amounting to illegal detention. It is prayed that an inquiry be instituted against the Haryana Police, regarding illegitimate use of water cannons, tear gases shells and lathis on peaceful protesting farmers.