Adequately manned police force deployed at Gazipur protest site: officer (representative)
Ghaziabad:
An FIR was registered on Saturday in a complaint alleging that Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait, who has been participating in the agitation against farm laws, received a death threat on his phone, a senior said. police officer.
The city police superintendent (II), Gyanendra Singh, said that Mr. Tikait’s personal assistant, Arjun Baliyan, filed a complaint that an unidentified person had threatened to kill the peasant leader.
The phone number mentioned in the complaint is under surveillance and efforts are underway to identify the caller, he told PTI.
The call was received on Saturday night.
An FIR has been registered at the Kaushambi Police Station under section 507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the SP said.
The police force was already deployed with adequate force at the site of the Gazipur border protest, the officer said.
Farmers associated with the BKU have been protesting in Gazipur since November 28 to push for the repeal of the three new agricultural laws, joining thousands of farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, who are in a sit-in elsewhere on the borders. from the national capital.
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