Farm protests: Plea seeks SIT inquiry into January violence at Singhu border, Delhi HC issues notice

The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the central and Delhi governments to respond to a plea that has sought an independent investigation into the attack on a farmers’ camp at the Singhu border on January 29, PTI reported.

Last year, farmers stormed into the bordering areas of the capital between November 25 and 26 braving barricades, batons and tear gas, to protest against the Centre’s farming legislature they dubbed as “black laws”. Since then, thousands of them have settled down with their tractors and trolleys at Singhu and Tikri areas bordering Haryana and at Ghazipur bordering Uttar Pradesh.

On January 29, a mob of around 200 people, who claimed to be locals of the area, barged into the Singhu protest site and vandalised it. The farmers retaliated, and stones were pelted by demonstrators from both sides.

Justice Mukta Gupta issued notices to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, the Delhi government’s home department and the Alipur police station, under whose jurisdiction the area falls, and sought their response.

The petition sought an inquiry by a Special Investigation Team and said that the January 29 violence was by some miscreants “with assistance and guidance of the police personnel” who were stationed at the border. It added that though a…

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