A bureaucrat posted in Haryana’s Karnal district, who was caught on camera last week ordering the police to smash the heads of protesting f...
A bureaucrat posted in Haryana’s Karnal district, who was caught on camera last week ordering the police to smash the heads of protesting farmers, has been transferred, PTI reported on Wednesday
Ayush Sinha, the sub-divisional magistrate of Karnal, will now serve as the additional secretary at Haryana’s Citizen Resources Information Department, the news agency reported, citing a government order.
HEAR Karnal’s DM saying it to his boys that they can break the heads as there are orders from the top to teach lesson to farmers.#FarmersProtest
— Daughters of Farmers (@dhilonkiran) August 28, 2021
#किसान_विरोधी_खट्टर pic.twitter.com/xsV1fseNH6
On August 28, there was unrest in Haryana after the police baton-charged a group of farmers heading to Karnal to protest against a meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders.
Sinha was on duty near the hotel where the meeting was taking place, according to The Indian Express.
Sinha instructed police officers deployed at the site not to let the farmers breach a barricade. “Let me state clearly, just smash their [farmers] heads [if they break the cordon],” he said in a video widely shared video on social media.
Sinha’s comments triggered massive outrage. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar also criticised his choice of words, but said that “strictness had to be maintained to ensure law and order”.
The officer also sought to justify his...
