Govt suspends Internet, fortifies sites and chokes supplies to stifle farmers unrest, but it wont deter them – National Herald

The Delhi Police, on its part, took recourse to literally picking up a freelance journalist involved in exposing the fact that a group of locals who had managed to simply walk in and attack the peacefully protesting farmers at Singhu border, leading to violence, were in fact outsiders apparently deployed to create mischief from the site on Saturday evening.

The journalist, Mandeep Punia, was thereafter untraceable, only to be produced before a magistrate on Sunday, and summarily remanded to judicial custody in Tihar jail for 14 days, without the presence of a defence lawyer.

Punias wife later revealed that while the journalist was slated to appear before the court at 2 pm, the police ushered him in within the court premises at 1:30 pm, causing the proceedings to begin even before the scribes lawyers could arrive.

According to the FIR against Punia, a group of protesters tried to break the barricades at Singhu border and after they were stopped, one person got into a scuffle with a constable and started to drag the latter towards the protest site, referring to Punia. It claimed that three policemen were injured in the scuffle.

The event triggered a huge outcry on social media and among members of civil society, but it remains to be seen if the journalist manages to secure bail.

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Govt suspends Internet, fortifies sites and chokes supplies to stifle farmers unrest, but it wont deter them - National Herald