Farmers protest live updates: 44 people arrested over Singhu border violence, say Delhi police

Accused, who include farmer leaders, may be asked to surrender their passports as well. The steps, said a source, are to prevent them from leaving the country.

These hospitals are Shushrut Trauma Centre and Teerath Ram Hospital in Civil Lines area.

Had he not jumped into that moat at Red Fort, he could well have had his neck slashed. At least that is what assistant sub-inspector Joginder Raj recalled a day after the rioting at Red Fort on Republic Day. “The attackers had all sorts of weapons,” Singh said. “They climbed to the ramparts and hoisted their flag. Someone gave them the national flag, but they threw it down. A senior police officer picked it up to prevent it being dishonoured.”

Punjabi actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu, who is copping most of the blame for the violence that marred the tractor rally in Delhi on R-Day, hid from the glare of cops, farmer comrades and cameras on Wednesday even as two new videos of the mayhem surfaced, one of which shows a vehicle give chase as he runs and jumps onto a motorbike to escape.

Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday chaired a meeting to review the Delhi situation and directed Delhi Police to identify every mischievous element behind the violence and “anti-national acts”, such as foisting a religious flag on Red Fort. At the meeting, Shah is said to have been briefed by police commissioner S N Srivastava on all the FIRs registered relating to the violence, and the people detained and questioned so far.

A day after violence during the tractor parade rocked the capital, farm unions agitating for repeal of the new central agri laws put off their ‘Sansad March’ (march towards Parliament) scheduled for Budget day on February 1 and decided to instead hold a day-long fast on “martyrs day” on January 30, the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The unions alleged Tuesday’s violence happened as a result of the “Centre conspiring with Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (led by Satnam Singh Pannu) and certain individuals, including BJP-RSS linked actor Deep Sidhu, to defame the movement”.