Lakhimpur Kheri violence | Sidhu, other Punjab Congress leaders detained at U.P. police station
The Hindu
Mr. Sidhu asked police officials to take action against perpetrators of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident rather than stopping public representatives
Several Punjab Congress leaders, including Navjot Singh Sidhu, were on Thursday prevented from heading to Lakhimpur Kheri and were detained at a police station in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier in the day, a large number of party workers, leaders, including several Ministers and legislators assembled in Mohali and headed towards Lakhimpur Kheri in their vehicles to protest against the killing of farmers during violence in the U.P. district. The protestors led by Mr. Sidhu were stopped at the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border where U.P. police had put up barricades.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.