In the wake of the in­ci­dents of 26 Jan­u­ary 2021, Delhi Po­lice has reg­is­tered mul­ti­ple FIRs against young protest­ing farm­ers who were part of the Trac­tor Pa­rade into var­i­ous parts of Delhi, in­clud­ing the his­toric Red Fort. Of all the de­tails ac­cessed so far by WSN, the copies of the FIRs are not avail­able on the Delhi po­lice web­site and many of the youth are be­ing held in de­ten­tion at un­known places.

Notwith­stand­ing the farm­ers’ strug­gle at var­i­ous sites on the pe­riph­ery of Delhi, there is a huge con­cern among fam­ily and hu­man rights de­fend­ers about the fate of young farm­ers ar­rested from ITO area, Nan­gloi, Red Fort and nearby ar­eas. Hu­man Rights de­fend­ers and lawyers are try­ing hard to reach out to the fam­i­lies and po­lice to know de­tails.

World Sikh News has called upon var­i­ous so­cial ser­vice or­gan­i­sa­tions, in­di­vid­u­als, lawyers and hu­man rights de­fend­ers to rise to the oc­ca­sion and pro­vide im­me­di­ate nec­es­sary le­gal aid to the de­fence­less young farm­ers.

As per a press re­lease, the Pan­thic Talmel San­gathan led by Gi­ani Ke­wal Singh has ex­pressed in­ter­est in tak­ing up the mat­ter im­me­di­ately and has urged fam­i­lies of vic­tims in po­lice cus­tody or ju­di­cial cus­tody to con­tact them for le­gal aid.

First NDTV and then BBC have re­ported that more than 200 farm­ers, mostly young, have been ar­rested for ri­ot­ing, loot, con­spir­acy, con­spir­acy to mur­der and even Un­law­ful Ac­tiv­i­ties Pre­ven­tion Act -UAPA at mul­ti­ple po­lice sta­tions, in­clud­ing Nan­gloi, Kot­wali and ITO.

It is right time for the DS­GMC to take up the mat­ter of the young de­tainees through its le­gal cell.

As per de­tails ac­cessed by WSN, so far, we have got the fol­low­ing de­tails:

Kisan Ag­i­ta­tion Cases