Tractor rally violence: 26-year-old Navdeep, who returned from Australia last year, dies during protests

Farmers have been protesting on the different borders of the national capital since November 26 last year against the three newly enacted farm laws - Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

However the protest turned dramatic as the agitating farmers clashed with the Delhi Police near ITO, with the police firing the tear gas shells and carrying out baton charges to disperse them.A total of 22 FIRs have been registered regarding the violence in which over 300 police personnel were injured. The Delhi Police is scheduled to hold a press briefing today.

A tractor overturned during the farmers' tractor march was underway on Republic Day. The young man who died hs been indentified as Navdeep Singh Hundal, 26 died. Navdeep had earlier participated in the farmers' agitation twice. On Republic Day, he participated in the tractor march. But he never returned home.

Navdeep, a 26-year-old resident of Dibdiba village in Rampur district used to live in Australia. He had returned from Australia last year when he married in February. His wife is still in Australia, said his neighbours from his village Dibdiba near the inter-district boundary of Rampur-Bilaspur in Uttar Pradesh.

He had an Australian study visa. Two years ago, he got married Manshit Kaur in Australia. He had come home in India to give a reception. A complaint was lodged against him for employing him on a study visa. He was therefore banned for three years. It had been two years since Navrit had returned to India. He was supposed to return Australia next year.

Navdeep’s body was brought back to Ghazipur, on the Delhi-UP border, draped in the Tricolor. His father was delivering a trolley-load of sugarcane to a mill in Rampur, western Uttar Pradesh, when he was told his son is dead.