On Wednesday, the protesting farmers at the Baghpat border were removed from the National Highway by the UP police after 40 days of agitation against the Centre’s contentious new farm reform laws. It took place in the presence of the DM and the SP, Baghpat.
Following the orders of the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police, cops reached the protest site and removed the farmers
Scores of protesting farmers were sitting at the protest site on the National Highway.
ADM Baghpat Amit Kumar said, “These farmers had blocked a side of the National Highway for over a month.
Today, the NHI wrote a letter to the district administration to vacate the highway. Acting on the same letter, the police administration has evacuated the highway.”
During eviction, the administration destroyed the tent of the farmers on the highway and sent back the stuff kept at the protest site in a tractor.