Union Home Minister Amit Shah to meet Injured police officer today: Republic Day violence.
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- Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit the Shushrut Trauma Centre and Tirath Ram Hospital in the Civil Lines area to address the police officers who were injured.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah headed a high-level meeting aimed at further deployment to preserve the capital’s law and order condition.
During the Republic Day tractor rally, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit the Shushrut Trauma Centre as well as Tirath Ram Hospital in the Civil Lines area to address the police officers who were injured.
More than 300 policemen were injured in the conflict that broke out at ITO since protesting farmers deviated from their tractor march route and entered the City, thus according to Delhi Police.
A high-level meeting conducted by Amit Shah:
Shortly after the violence escalated and protesters entered the Red Fort, on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah headed a high-level meeting aimed at further deployment to preserve the capital’s law and order condition.
A notice is also given to Union leaders:
Farmers’ unions have distanced themselves from the unrest, arguing that demonstrators were instigated by outsiders.
The Centre released a warning on Wednesday, but anyone is involved will not be saved. FIRs were registered towards union leaders like Rakesh Tikait among those apart from Punjabi star, singer Deep Sidhu as well as gangster-turned-activist Lakha Sidhana.
A notice was also given to Union leaders urging them to clarify their inability to monitor the protest when they gave the Delhi Police an undertaking when negotiating the routes of the march.
There has been a slogan ” Police ke Maro”:
Protesters suspected police officers of resisting by barricading them. Police responded to tear gas firing as a group of demonstrators marched toward Akshardham.
The scenario at ITO, however, and also then at Red Ford later became complicated. There have been ‘police ke maro’ slogans, as per the account of one police officer on duty within the Red Fort on Republic Day. In the Red Fort, demonstrators armed with sticks entered as well as thrashed those in service. At ITO, there have been attempts by tractors to threaten police officers.
Head constable Punjab Singh told PTI:
We were gheraoed by them as we moved to try to persuade the demonstrators to stop. They began to strike us with lathis. We attempted to run away but were caught.
I was hit with lathis on my arm as well as head and suffered injuries. Head constable Punjab Singh, who is receiving care at Tirath Ram Shah Hospital, had said that I was not even in a condition to stand and dropped to the ground.
