Punjab govt. to give ₹2 lakh compensation to 83 arrested in Delhi for tractor rally on Republic Day
The Hindu
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said in a tweet on Friday.
The Punjab government has decided to give ₹2 lakh as compensation to 83 people who were arrested by the Delhi Police after a tractor rally against the Centre's farm laws turned this year.
The farmers had taken out a tractor march on January 26 in the national capital to highlight their two principal demands of a repeal of three new agri laws and a legal guarantee of minimum support prices.
However, the march took a violent turn as thousands of protesters broke through barriers, fought with the police, overturned vehicles and hoisted a religious flag from the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort.

“Judicial time is a valuable public resource. Every frivolous or misconceived invocation of constitutional jurisdiction results in diversion of time from genuinely deserving litigants,” said the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court while imposing a cost of ₹50,000 on a man from Theni district who filed a petition with an unusual prayer: permission to conduct daily protests till the ‘World War’ ends.












