Punjab farmers force officer to burn stubble, CM Bhagwant Mann says ‘severe action will be taken’
stubble burning were made to set the crop residue on fire. It shows that the official's hand was held by two farmers as they forced him to set the stubble on blaze with a match stick. The incident took place in Mehma Sarja village on Friday when a team led by a special supervisor went there to check stubble-burning incidents.
Police have lodged an FIR in the matter after an order by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday who condemned the incident, calling it an “inhuman crime" against the people of the state. Bathinda Deputy Commissioner Showkat Ahmad Parray had also written to the senior superintendent of police, asking him to register an FIR against the farmers for preventing the official from discharging his duty, PTI reported. "When he (official) was mobbed, what option he could have.
He had no choice. An FIR will be lodged in the matter and those who were behind the incident will be put behind bars. I am also visiting the village myself.
We will not let it go that way. Lawlessness is not something that we will tolerate," said the DC. He further informed that the official was surrounded by a group of 50-60 farmers with allegiance to a farmer's body, took him to a nearby field, and forced him to put a heap of stubble on fire.
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