Farmers’ stir: Haryana police starts passport and visa cancellation process against protesters

The police officer clarified that not all participants in the farmer agitation are engaged in such acts.

According to the officer, action is being initiated against those ‘rowdies’ who came from Punjab to Haryana during the farmer agitation. “Through CCTV or drone cameras and videography, we have identified such persons engaged in breaking barricades or causing disturbances. We have also taken numerous photographs in which they are seen vandalizing properties and causing disturbances through different means,” added the DSP.

The police officer mentioned that they are commencing the process to cancel their passports and visas by contacting the passport authorities and the concerned embassies. “We are initiating action for the cancellation of their visas and passports by accessing their photos and residential details,” Sharma added.”

Haryana unions talk of restrictions

Haryana farmer unions’ leaders have, meanwhile, claimed that the state police has put up notices on their houses, stating the loss caused to public and private properties during the agitation will be recovered by seizing their (farmers’) properties and freezing their bank accounts.

“Notices have been put up on the houses of over a dozen farmer unions’ leaders, most of them are associated with the BKU (Shaheed Bhagat Singh) Ambala, a KMM constituent. Our phones have been put on surveillance, and police are visiting our houses because we are protesting against the government and raising our genuine demands,” BKU (Shaheed Bhagat Singh) Haryana spokesperson Tejveer Singh told The Indian Express.

“I haven’t visited my home since January 30, much before the Dilli Chalo march started,” said Tejveer from Panjokra Sahib village in Ambala, where the Haryana government has suspended mobile internet till February 29.

Amarjeet Singh Morhi, president of the union, said that he too had not visited his house for over the past 20 days and that a notice was pasted on his house as well. In addition to this, In addition to this even sources revealed that Haryana cops were identifying a few anti-social elements in she guise of farmers in the dharna and their details were being sent to passport department for imposing restrictions on their passports. Many persons were being identified via CCTV footage.

Sources said notices were put on the house of farmers leaders on February 22, including BKU (Shaheed Bhagat Singh) president Mohri, spokesperson Tejveer Singh and core committee member Jai Singh Jalbera, and other farm activists, including Manjeet Singh (Garnala village), Gurmeet Singh (Majri village), Kuldeep Singh (Mohri village), and Sukhchain Singh (Bharog village), among others.