Sonipat Jind: Farmers have been protesting on the borders of Delhi for the last 14 days against three new agricultural laws brought by the central government. On Tuesday, the farmers had called for a shutdown in India, during which information about the death of at least three people has been revealed.
On Tuesday, a farmer who came to protest on the demand for the return of three new agricultural laws on the Singhu border of Delhi died under suspicious circumstances. police gave this information.
Ravi Kumar, in-charge of the Kundali police station in Sonepat said that we had received information that 32-year-old farmer Ajay Singh, who lives in Baroda, has died in front of TDI.
Police said that Ajay was involved in the farmers' strike on the border for the last few days. He said that he was sleeping under his trolley after having dinner late on December 7, but he did not wake up when his colleagues picked him up in the morning. The farmers informed the employees of the Health Department about this. When the health workers went to the spot and examined him, he was dead.
After getting the information of the accident, the police reached the spot and took the body in possession and sent it to a hospital in Sonepat for postmortem.
Police have told that prima facie a case of death from cold is being felt, however, only after the report of the postmortem will be revealed how the death will be revealed.
According to the Navbharat Times, Bibi Gurmel Kaur died on Tuesday during the farmer movement. She was making rotis daily for the farmers involved in the dharna.
At the same time, a farmer sitting on a dharna in Jind, Haryana died due to cardiac arrest.
A farmer sitting on a dharna between village Ujhana and Garhi in Jind district died due to cardiac arrest in protest against farmers' Bharat Bandh in protest against the Centre's three agricultural laws. Garhi police station is investigating the case.
60-year-old farmer Kitab Singh, a resident of village Ujhana, was leading a dharna running on Garhi Marg near the village on Tuesday morning. In the afternoon, Kitab Singh's health deteriorated and he collapsed in a daze.
The fellow farmer took Singh to Narwana Hospital for treatment. The doctors there declared Singh dead.
Singh's son Jitendra told, "My father had come to picket there and died of cardiac arrest in the afternoon."
According to police sources, after receiving information about the incident, Garhi Police Station Incharge reached Narwana General Hospital and took stock of the situation. At present, the Garhi police station is investigating the case.
According to the Indian Express, a 49-year-old farmer from Punjab died on December 7 in Delhi's Tikari border. The police had said that the cause of death has not yet been ascertained.
According to Jhajjar police officials, the deceased farmer was identified as Mewa Singh of Moga district of Punjab.
Bahadurgarh DSP Pawan Kumar had said, 'After his health deteriorated, he was taken to Bahadurgarh General Hospital, where he was declared dead. The cause of death is unclear. His colleagues have said that he has had a heart attack.
Explain that earlier, at least six people have died due to different reasons during the farmers movement.
On December 3, a farmer involved in an ongoing demonstration on the Tikari border had reportedly died of a heart attack. The deceased was identified as Lakhvir Singh, a resident of Bathinda. He came to Delhi on November 28 and was doing duty in the langar service on the ticker border.
On the morning of November 2, 60-year-old Gurjant Singh of Mansa district of Punjab also died on the border. He was a resident of Bachoana village in Mansa district. He was also participating in the performance with BKU (Ugrahan). He suddenly became ill late one December night. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died.
Similarly, late December 1, 32-year-old Baljinder Singh died in a road accident in Kurukshetra. He was returning from the protest venue of the farmers in Delhi. Baljinder was a resident of Jhimat village in Ludhiana.
On the night of 29 November, 55-year-old farmer Gajjan Singh of Ludhiana died on the Delhi border near Bahadurgarh. The farmers accompanying him said that he died due to heart attack.
On 29 November, 55-year-old mechanic Janak Raj Aggarwal died due to a fire in a car. Aggarwal was resting in this car.
Janak, a mechanic working in Dhanaula, Barnala district, Punjab, along with three other men who fix the tractor, came to the Tikari border to repair the tractors and trucks of the farmers involved in the movement.
The first death during the 'Delhi Chalo' demonstration was Dhanna Singh, a 45-year-old farmer from Mansa district of Punjab. Singh died in a road accident in Bhiwani, Haryana on 27 November.
Explain that thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana and other areas have been staging a sit-in near the Delhi border for the last 14 days (26 November) in protest against the three new agricultural laws of the central government. They believe that the new agricultural laws will abolish the minimum support price (MSP) system, leaving them at the 'mercy' of corporate houses.
The farmers say that they have come to Delhi for a decisive fight and till their demands are met, their protest will continue.
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