Police on Thursday took into preventive custody about 100 farmers owing allegiance to Bharti Kisaan Union (Ugrahan) in the wake of its call for a proposed road blockade across Punjab demanding release of their nine activists.
"Some 100 farmers from our organisation have been taken into custody by police in the wee hours across the state," BKU (Ugrahan) Secretary Sukhdev Singh told PTI.
BKU (U) has given a call to block road traffic in Punjab from 12 to 3 pm on Friday.
According to police, the farmers were taken into preventive custody to maintain law and order on Friday.
Singh said that their demand is to release the nine farmers owing allegiance to their outfit who are in jails in Majha belt of Punjab. The arrested senior leaders include Paramjeet Kaur, Narinder Kaur and Harpal Singh.
The outfit is protesting against the arrest of 49 farmers from Gurdaspur and Amritsar districts from September 8 to 10 when they were protesting against the installation of power meters outside their houses.
Out of 49 arrested, 40 were released yesterday, a senior police officer said here, adding that other nine could not be released as they faced severe criminal charges.
