Cong to give legal assistance to farmers

New Delhi, Feb 2 : Amid reports of Delhi Police filing FIRs against many farmers and their leaders, the Congress legal department headed by Vivek Tankha on Tuesday formed teams to assist them for any legal help.
A resolution passed by the legal department says, “Delegations of legal department from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi will be visiting farmer leaders at protest-sites at borders of Delhi to apprise them of legal services already taken to help farmers and journalists regarding relief and redressal.” The department will display in public a list of lawyers in each district of the four states who will visit jails and find out about the persons missing and also visit police stations.
The Delhi Police on Monday said that no illegal detention has been done in the farmers’ agitation and protest, and appealed people not to fall prey for rumours.
“We have registered a total of 44 cases in the farmers’ protest so far and a total of 122 people have been arrested. Apart from those arrested, no one has been detained in the police stations. The records of all those who have been arrested is also available on Delhi Police website,” said Eish Singhal, PRO, Delhi Police.
The Delhi Police also said that the kin of those arrested can also seek information from the concerned police stations.