Punjab government must ensure immediate medical care for farm leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal: SC
The Supreme Court instructed the state government to handle law and order problems caused by protesting farmers ‘with an iron hand’.
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The Supreme Court on Friday said that the Punjab government must take all measures to ensure that farm leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal – who is on an indefinite hunger strike – receives immediate and adequate medical care, Live Law reported.
The Court also directed the state government to file a compliance report in the matter by 11 am on Saturday, when it is scheduled to hear the case again.
Dallewal, chief of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), has been on an indefinite hunger strike at Khanauri, located on the Punjab-Haryana border, since November 26.
The 70-year-old cancer patient, who has held hunger strikes in the past, had announced his protest on the fourth anniversary of the farmers’ movement against the now-scrapped farm laws.
Dallewal’s hunger strike is part of a wider campaign by Punjab’s farm groups to press the Union government to accept their demand for legally guaranteed minimum support prices. The minimum support price is the cost at which the government procures crops from farmers.
“…Perhaps you are not [taking this seriously], otherwise you would have given medical aid by now,” Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia remarked on Friday, pointing out that “somebody’s life is at stake”.
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