Police remove protesting Punjab farmers

Police on Tuesday cleared the site outside the PSPCL headquarters by removing farmers who had been sitting on dharna since Thursday last. All the leaders were rounded up and the PSPCL gate opened as the employees entered the building after four days. The rounded-up farmer leaders along with their supporters were taken away in a bus. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (non-political), a breakaway group of the SKM, had been protesting outside the PSPCL head office. Cops in heavy numbers reached the venue. Police had asked them to lift the dharna peacefully but the farmers had refused to do so. Police blocked all roads around the dharna venue. The union members sitting on a fast unto death at the site were rounded up. Police removed all barricades and tractors from the dharna site that were put up by the farmers.