Things seized from protesting farmers found at AAP supporters' houses in Punjab: Report

Farmer leaders alleged that tractors and trolleys that had been stolen were being sold at cheaper rates and the police were complicit in this.

Several farmers, who were part of the Shambhu and Khanauri protests, have claimed that their belongings, including trolleys, are missing, and they have accused the AAP government in Punjab of stealing their belonging after their protest camps were demolished.

"Tractors, trailers, even refrigerators, ACs, inverters, beds, and gas cylinders - everything that was under police supervision has now been found in the homes of AAP legislators' supporters," The Times of India quoted BKU (Ekta Sidhupur) secretary Gurdeep Singh Chahal as saying as he demanded compensation for all their losses. He also alleged that their tractors and trolleys that had been stolen were being sold at cheaper rates and the police were complicit in this.

Meanwhile, farmer leader Guramneet Singh Mangat claimed that many trolleys were missing when the farmers went to the sites to take those back.

Farmers are visiting villages in search of their belongings, he said.

Another KMSC leader, Satnam Singh Pannu, demanded that the Punjab government compensate the loss for missing belongings and dismantling the structures put up by farmers at the Shambhu and Khanauri protest sites.

KMSC leader Sukhwinder Singh had also claimed last week that several belongings of farmers at the Shambhu and Khanauri border points between Punjab and Haryana were missing following the police action.

The police have reportedly recovered six stolen tractors so far and registered three cases related to thefts.

In a crackdown last week, several farmer leaders, including Pandher and Jagjit Singh Dallewal, were detained by the Punjab Police as they were returning from a meeting with a central delegation led by Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Chandigarh.

Meanwhile, KMSC leader Sukhwinder Singh slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for detaining the farmer leaders and evicting the protesters from Shambhu and Khanauri.

(With PTI inputs)