“Loss of revenue due to farmers’ protest has primarily occurred in the States of Punjab and Haryana and at a few plazas in Rajasthan", Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has stated in the Lok Sabha.
The Gurugram Municipal Corporation has also doubled the license fees for meat shops and has increased challan amount for unauthorised meat shops from Rs 500 to Rs 5000.
The bill authorises the Haryana government to confiscate properties and seize bank accounts of rioters till they pay for the damages caused to public properties.
Congress leader seen urging party workers to keep the farmer protests going by supplying all necessary things like vegetables and liquor to the protestors.
Pradeep Chaudhary, who represented the Kalka Assembly, has been sentenced to 3 years behind bars and penalised ₹85,000 by the Nalagarh court in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh.
Advocate Mehak Sahni on behalf of Tauseef has claimed that the investigation against him is politically motivated and he is being 'wrongly dragged' in the 'love jihad' angle.