162 protesting farmers arrested in Gt Noida
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03/02/2009
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Tribune (New Delhi)
Parmindar Singh
Greater Noida, February 2
The district administration has arrested 162 agitating farmers of two villages, Dhada and Sakipur. The farmers were scheduled to go to Delhi to meet the President demanding bonus payment to be effective from 2005.
The administration says their demand was unjustified while the farmers say that they were given assurance by authority officers at the time of taking possession of land in 2005.
District magistrate Sharvan Kumar Sharma said,