Delhi Chalo’ march: Farmers stopped at Shambhu border, police fire tear gas shells

SHAMBHU: A ‘jatha’ of 101 farmers on Friday began its foot march to Delhi from their protest site at Shambhu border, but was stopped a few metres away by a multilayered barricading.

The security personnel used teargas as some farmers reached near the barricades put up on the Haryana side of the Shambhu border.

Haryana Police asked the farmers not to proceed further and cited a prohibitory order clamped under Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).