BREAKING | Updates on the killing of #farmer Navneet Singh at ITO:

An eyewitness told The Caravan that he saw the police firing from behind the grills of the Andhra Education Society. A group of police officials led by ACP HSP Singh have taken charge of the CCTV footage.
Eyewitnesses said they saw police personnel fleeing from the spot after Navneet was shot. An police official at the spot (name withheld) later said that his colleagues “ran away out of fear.” #farmerprotests #TractorRally
At around 4pm, the few farmers gathered around the body outside the AES, headed to the basement of the Andhra Education Society, along with an inspector from the IP Estate PS to secure the CCTV footage of the shooting. #farmerprotests #TractorRally
Soon, 15-odd police personnel dressed in riot gear arrived with HSP Singh, ACP of the Tilak Nagar subdivision, who stayed outside the room. The police forced the farmers out.

An police officer in riot gear took the CCTV tape, hid it inside his chest shield and walked out.
Every police officer, along with HSP Singh, left the AES afterwards from the back gate, without securing the crime scene in front of the main gate, where a pool of blood and a bloodstained cloth remain unsecured as of now.

#farmersprotest #TractorRally #tractorParade

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26 Jan
BREAKING: #Updates on the killing of #farmer Navneet Singh at ITO.

An eyewitness told The Caravan that he saw the police firing from behind the grills of the Andhra Education Society. A group of police officials led by ACP HSP Singh have taken charge of the CCTV footage.
Eyewitnesses said they saw police personnel fleeing from the spot after Navneet was shot. An police official at the spot (name withheld) later said that his colleagues “ran away out of fear.” #farmerprotests #TractorRally
At around 4pm, the few farmers gathered around the body outside the AES, headed to the basement of the Andhra Education Society, along with an inspector from the IP Estate PS, to secure the CCTV footage of the shooting. #farmerprotests #TractorRally
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The Andhra Education Society has two CCTV cameras outside the entrance that would have caught the incident.
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From November 2017: bit.ly/340RXsz
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From November 2017, @niranjan_takle in: bit.ly/2pypmvQ
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