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Rajasthan-Haryana border: Cops use water cannon, tear gas as farmers break through barricades

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Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Rewari, December 31

A group of protesting farmers camping at the Delhi-Jaipur highway (NH-48) for the past 18 days, on Thursday, removed two-layer barricading at Shahjahanpur-Khera border in Rajasthan to move towards the national capital.

The police initially used tear gas shells to stop them but later let them go while sensing the gravity of the situation.

The farmers were, thereafter, stopped by the Rewari police near Bhudla village, about 12 km away from the border, whereas other thousands of farmers were, as usual, staying at the border till filing of the news report.