Key Takeaways
- Farmers in Haryana held a CID officer hostage, accusing him of spying on them.
- The protestors alleged that the CID officer was taking pictures of the protest site and sending them to senior officials.
- The farmer leader Baldev Sirsa claimed that the officer’s phone had an audio clip of him sharing information about the protest site with other officers.
In a shocking and unfortunate development related with the so-called farmers’ protest, a CID officer of the Haryana police named Satendra Pal was held hostage by the protestors in Jind, Haryana, at the Datta Singhwala Border, on Wednesday, February 14. It was alleged by the protestors that Pal was ‘spying’ on them, and based on this suspicion of theirs, they held Satendra captive.
The protestors accused the CID officer of taking pictures of the protest site and sending them to senior officials. Farmer leader Baldev Sirsa said that the officer was receiving calls from senior officials every other minute, and that his phone had an audio clip of him sharing information about the protest site with other officers.
Following this, the protestors handed over Pal and his phone to Punjab police.
