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Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana High court conducted hearing in the PILs filed in relation with Farmers’ Protest. The hearing was headed by Acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court and asked the Haryana government what kind of weapons are permitted to be used on protestors. He even questioned Punjab government the reason for delay in the registration of FIR and conducting Postmortem of the deceased Youth Farmer Shubhkaran Singh.
The DB further asked if the compensation to the family of the deceased has been provided by the Punjab or Haryana government.
The court observed that both Punjab and Haryana governments were running away from their responsibilities to investigate the matter of death of Shubhkaran by citing the issue of jurisdiction of incident.
During the hearing, the counsel for Haryana submitted photographs of the protest site and apprised the court that the protestors were carrying swords and were aggressive and innocent women and children were used as shields by keeping them in front. The Court strongly said that such acts were shameful and was not the culture of Punjab.
Court added that protestors provoked the police to use force. The DB further stated that the farm leaders should be put in the right place and taken to places like Chennai and put in the jails for using women and children as shield. HC further said that it is not the constitutional rights of farmers to protest with weapons and they should not cross their limits.
The court directed to constitute a 3-member committee headed by a retired Judge of the High Court and two ADGP rank officers (one each from Punjab and Haryana) and to conduct the inquiry into the matter of death of Shubkaran and reason for delay in registration of FIR. The Committee shall be constituted by today evening and report to be submitted within one month.
