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Hundreds of farmers in India detained, protest sites bulldozed
The Straits Times
|March 21, 2025
The police in India's northern state of Punjab detained hundreds of farmers and used bulldozers to tear down their temporary camps in a border area where they had protested for more than a year to demand better crop prices.
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The farmers had camped on the border with adjoining Haryana since February 2024, when security forces halted their march towards the capital New Delhi to press for legally backed guarantees of more state support for crops.
"We did not need to use any force because there was no resistance," Mr Nanak Singh, a senior police officer, told the ANI news agency about the clearance action on the night of March 19. "The farmers cooperated well, and they sat in buses themselves."
He added that the farmers had been given prior notice.
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