The man was presented to the media on Friday night by farmers.
New Delhi:
The man introduced by protesting farmers near Delhi at a press conference Friday night had lied about a plot to disrupt their agitation and “assassinate” four leaders on Republic Day, police said Saturday.
Haryana police have been questioning the man after agitating peasant leaders who alleged he was involved in a conspiracy to kill four of them and disrupt their planned tractor parade in Delhi on January 26.
“Yesterday, he alleged that an inspector Pradeep, SHO (police house officer) from the Rai police station commissioned him. Our preliminary investigation shows that there is no inspector named Pradeep in the district or at the Rai police station.” Sonipat district police said Chief Jashandeep Singh Randhawa said.
“He is a resident of Sonipat. His father is a cook and his mother washes dishes. This masked person used to work in a factory. After the closure of COVID-19, he was expelled and is currently unemployed. When questioned, he came to In addition, he had discussions with volunteer farmers about allegations of taunting the day before. They took him to a camp where they beat him. He said he made statements out of fear. No criminal record was found against the person, “he said. adding that the man is not under arrest.
“He had alleged that he used to receive calls from a landline number. The details collected by us show no such thing. He was also not present at the Chief Minister’s rally in Karnal on January 10 as alleged,” said the police officer . .
The man, said to be 21 years old, was allegedly captured at the Singhu border outside Delhi by protesting peasant leaders who paraded him in front of reporters on Friday night and then handed him over to police.
With his face covered with a scarf, the man claimed that a plan was hatched to assassinate four peasant leaders, who are familiar faces in the media and are organizing the movement against the new agricultural laws of the central government, on stage on Saturday.
At the press conference, he also said that there were nine others, including two women, who were part of the team destined to cause chaos at the tractor rally, although he did not know the names of the others. He said he was trained by a police officer.
In the biggest turmoil facing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government since he took office, hundreds of thousands of farmers have been camping on the outskirts of the national capital for almost two months, blocking some of the roads connecting New Delhi with the neighboring states.
The government of Prime Minister Modi has said that laws introduced in September will free farmers from the obligation to sell products only in regulated wholesale markets. But farmers say the bills are designed to benefit private buyers
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