Nearly 35 farmers were injured when a raging bull charged into farmers staging a Dharna near Bathinda District Complex on Thursday. Among the injured, 17 were women.
Protesters accused the district administration of deliberately setting the bull on them to disrupt their protest demonstration, arguing that there was no way the animal could have slipped past police barricades unnoticed. Farmers also alleged that health officials had failed to provide ambulance for the wounded.
Policemen on duty, meanwhile, said that the bull came from one end of the street — where the Dunes Club was located — and stormed out of the other end before they could act. Farmers have organised statewide protests against the Punjab Government’s agricultural policy, which they claim has destroyed the State’s farming sector.