{"id":330524,"date":"2021-01-23T08:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T08:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330524"},"modified":"2021-01-23T08:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T08:05:06","slug":"farmers-nab-man-assigned-to-disrupt-peaceful-protest-man-says-he-was-forced-to-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/farmers-nab-man-assigned-to-disrupt-peaceful-protest-man-says-he-was-forced-to-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers nab man \u2018assigned\u2019 to disrupt peaceful protest; man says he \u2018was forced to lie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330526 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/protest-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/protest-2.jpg 681w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/protest-2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/protest-2-644x420.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/>Protesting farmers camping at the Delhi-Haryana border claimed to have nabbed a man in police uniform on Friday, whom they alleged was sent by someone to create disturbance during their proposed tractor rally in Delhi on January 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing a press conference at the Singhu border late on Friday night, the farmer leaders presented a masked man who claimed that his accomplices were allegedly asked to pose as policemen and baton-charge the crowd during the proposed tractor rally on January 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The youth is being questioned by Haryana police in Sonepat, officials said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The farmer leaders said the man had confessed that there was a plan to eliminate four farmer union leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The masked man has been identified as Yogesh, a resident of Sonipat has told Haryana Police that he was forced to lie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a viral video released today, the man said that farmer leaders thrashed and threatened him that he will be killed and no one will know about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said at the press conference he was reading a script given to him by farmer leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting farmers camping at the Delhi-Haryana border claimed to have nabbed a man in police uniform on Friday, whom they alleged was sent by someone to create disturbance during their proposed tractor rally in Delhi on January 26. While addressing a press conference at the Singhu border late on Friday night, the farmer leaders presented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2110,2009,2014],"tags":[13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330527,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330524\/revisions\/330527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}