Delhi Police brushed off the claim of dropping improvised bombs at a farmers’ protest site by drone

News Desk: The Delhi Police on Saturday brushed off the claim of dropping improvised bombs at a farmers’ protest site by drone, describing it “a figment of imagination”.

Responding to a tweet which claimed that a helicopter dropped two improvised bombs near the stage of farm organisation Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), DCP outer north said, “the claim of dropping improvised bombs by drone is a figment of imagination.”

A Twitter handle, Trolley Times, alleged that the police have barricaded the KMSC stage from Sanyukt Morcha as well as Delhi side since January 27.

Rejecting the claim, DCP outer north said that access to the KSMC stage from the Delhi side as well as the Sanyukt Morcha stage is open via pre-designated routes and is in use by protestors.

The police also rebuffed the claim that protesters are not able to use water tanks and portable toilets. “All civil amenities including mobile toilets, water tankers are available on the ground and are being used by protestors,” DCP outer north said in a tweet.

The Trolley Times had claimed that “water supply was shut down and ration was hauled through abandoned side streets on small carts.” “All portable toilets on KMSC side were moved by the police on the other side of the barricades. The only place to go to toilet now is one petrol pump,” it had alleged.

Thousands of farmers, mainly from Haryana and Punjab, have been protesting at various border points of Delhi for over two months now, insisting on repeal of the Centre’s three laws. They have expressed apprehension that the contentious laws will weaken the existing government’s support for the farm sector, a charge rejected by the Centre.

The Centre has held several rounds of formal talks with the representatives of farmers to resolve the issue over the farm laws, but failed to achieve any concrete solution with the unions sticking to their main demand for the repeal of the legislations.

At the 11th round of talks last month, the Centre urged farmers to reconsider their offer of putting the three farm laws on hold for 1-1.5 years, but the farmers turned down their proposal. A decision on the next round of talks with farmers has not been taken yet.