Farmers Protest

Groups of young lawyers from the Punjab and Haryana High Court have set up camps at the three protest sites to help the agitating farmers legally and find those who disappeared after the Republic Day fracas.

A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court by the family of Navreet Singh, the farmer who allegedly died due to overturning of the tractor during the tractor rally on January 26.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday has stayed the arrest of senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, six journalists including Rajdeep Sardesai, Vinod Jose, and others while hearing the petition challenging the multiple FIRs filed against them for allegedly sharing misinformation on Republic Day.

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Farmers' bodies are conducting a 3-hour 'chakka jam' across the country today, between 12 noon and 3 pm.

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Earlier on Thursday, 12 MPs from Opposition parties met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and handed him a letter, saying the condition of farmers resembled that of prisoners in jail

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a probe by a judicial inquiry commission into the Republic Day violence during farmers' tractor rally in the capital.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the criminal writ petition against BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and ABP News, alleging a conspiracy hatched by them against innocent farmers, to implicate them as terrorists and hooligans by running fake news and propaganda on its news channel debate.