Jat protests News

The decision by Jats, agitating for quota, of calling off agitation had come as a relief to Delhi which was bracing for trouble.

"Internet services, which had been suspended yesterday, were restored this evening," an official spokesman said here.

President of All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti Yashpal Malik said five million Jats will return to Delhi on March 20 with their tractors and cattle to intensify their demonstration.

Following the resumed agitation by Jats, the Haryana government on Tuesday set up a five-member committee headed by Chief Secretary D.S. Dhesi "to consider the demands and resolve the problems of those agitating for reservation" in the state.

The protesters handed over a memorandum to Gurugram Deputy Commissioner Hardeep Singh demanding reservation in jobs for Jats.

Head of the state government's Special Investigative Team told the court that Amrik had broken down during six hours of interrogation but had denied the gang-rapes.

The Haryana government on Monday told the Punjab and Haryana high court a section of gang-rape has been added in the FIR registered in the case, as per a media report.

A bank guard who single-handedly saved Rs.137 crore in a bank from being looted during Haryana's Jat protests deserves the highest gallantry award for civilians, a minister said on Tuesday.

 The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday took cognizance of media reports that some women, who were commuting on the Delhi-Ambala highway (NH-1), had been allegedly stripped and raped by rioters during the violent Jat agitation.

 Haryana government on Wednesday announced that those who suffered property loss during Jat quota agitation could claim upto 25 per cent as interim relief immediately on the basis of self-assessment of the damage.

 Haryana police on Wednesday booked former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's close aide Virender on sedition charges over an audio clip of his conversation in which he allegedly incited violence during the Jat quota agitation.

The committee took stock of the situation and discussed as how to move forward in the matter.

Rajnath Singh gave a detailed presentation about the agitation and subsequent violence as well as the steps taken to restore normalcy in Haryana. 

The Indian Army has for the first time been given a free hand by the Centre to take action against those involved in looting amidst the protests by members of the Jat community in Haryana, sources in the Ministry of Defence said.

 The Delhi government on Saturday moved the Supreme Court over the sudden water crisis in the capital due to the Jat agitation in Haryana.

Violent protests carried out by the Jat community in Haryana intensified on Saturday, even as Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khatter accepted the demands of the agitators and appealed to maintain calm.

The response came after Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today released a statement saying that his government has "accepted" their demands.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday issued showcause notice to party MP Raj Kumar Saini for making comments `opposing` Jat reservation.Saini had earlier expressed objection over giving reservation to Jats and even threatened to resign if there was `any loss` to reservation quota for Other Backward Classes (OBC).

Appealing to protesters to end their stir, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar asked agitators to "return to their homes as the Government has accepted their demands".