FIR against ‘unknown persons’ for digging borewells at farmers’ protest site near Tikri border

March 17, 2021 03:26 pm | Updated 03:26 pm IST - GURUGRAM:

Two First Information Reports have been registered by Haryana Police at separate police stations in Bahadurgarh against unknown persons for digging borewells and raising permanent structures at farmers’ agitation site near Tikri border.

The cases were registered at City and Sadar Bahadurgarh Police Stations on Tuesday.

Sidharth Singh, Harayana Sahari Vikas Pradhikaran, Estate Officer, in a FIR registered at Sadar Bahadurgarh Police Station said that unknown persons are raising permanent structures on the agency road dividing Sector 10 and 12. The FIR, registered under Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and the Indian Penal Code, further said that illegal bore-well has also been dug up along the road causing damage to public property.

Similarly, a FIR has been registered at City Bahadurgarh Police Station at the behest of Manish Kumar, Human Resources Manager, Rohad Toll Plaza on National Highway-9 under Section 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 8B (Punishment for mischief by injury to national highway) of the National Highways Act. The FIR said that illegal bore-well was being dug up near Najafgarh flyover slip road and demanded that the encroachment be removed at the earliest.

The farmers have been raising permanent structures and digging borewells near the agitation site at Tikri border in view of the onset of summer.

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