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Family booked for draping UP farmer's dead body in Tricolor

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Gitanjali Mangal
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Family booked for draping UP farmer's dead body in Tricolor
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UP farmer's dead body in Tricolor: Farmers continue to protest on the borders of Delhi against the three central agricultural laws and the protest has entered its 71st day.
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Also Read | "If govt ready to make amendments, doesn't mean there is problem in laws" publive-image The police said that a farmer died in a road accident near the Ghazipur protest site. His mother and brother have been booked along with another person for allegedly insulting the national flag as a video of his last rites here showed the body draped in the Tricolor. According to the flag code of India, draping the Tricolor in a civilian funeral is an offence. The farmer was at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border protesting against the farm laws and died in an accident near there, police added. "Baljindra, a resident of Bari Bujhia village in Sehramau area, had gone to participate in the farmers' agitation on January 23 with his friends. He died in a mishap on January 25 and his body was kept in a mortuary as that of an unidentified person. His family members came to know about the incident on February 2 and they brought the body here," Superintendent of Police Jai Prakash Yadav said. Adding, "The family covered the body with the national flag like that of a martyr and took it for last rites on Thursday. The video of the last rites went viral on social media after which an FIR was registered against Baljindra's mother Jasvir Kaur, brother Gurvinder and an unidentified person," publive-image Farmers have been protesting at Delhi borders. Despite 11 rounds of meeting between the protesting farmers and the Centre, no conclusion has come out so far. No date has been fixed for the next meeting. The farmers have been protesting against the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. -PTC News-
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